Complex sentence: The "terror cimbricus" was a panic and state of emergency in Rome in response to the approach of warriors of the Cimbri tribe in 105 BCE that the Jacobins cited as a precedent when imposing the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.
Split into simpler sentences: The "terror cimbricus" was a panic and state of emergency in Rome in response to the approach of warriors of the Cimbri tribe in 105 BCE. The Jacobins cited this precedent when imposing the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.