Western civ test 4 Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
753 | Traditional date of the founding of rome |
509 | Traditional date of replacement of the kingdom with a republic |
Cincinnatur | appointed dictator,defeated the enemy,and resigned and went back to his farm |
Sack of rome by the celts | after rome was unconquered for 800 years |
Campaigns of pyrrhus | king of epirus and mercenary general for italian greeks against rome |
Hieron II | king of syracuse (leading city of sicily), an ally of rome |
1st punic war | against carthage |
2nd punic war | also referred to as The Hannibalic War,This was the second major war between Carthage and the Roman Republic, with the participation of the Berbers on Carthage's side. |
defeat of roman army | at cannae by hannibal who was the carthage commander |
Conquest of Syracuse(now hostile) | by Rome. |
Death of Archimedes | during the street fighting |
Defeat of Hannibal by the | Romans at Zama(Near Carthage); |
202 | Hannibal's escape |
Term as Censor of Cato | Celebrated defender of the traditional Republic and its values |
Third Punic War | Destruction of Carthage |
Death of Gaius Gracchus... | radical tribune who advocated land reform(including breaking up latifundia) |
death of Marius, army general sympathetic to plebeians | the first general to seize power |
Death of Sulla, bitter opponent of Marius | the first general to march on Rome, seize power, and carry out a general massacre of his opponents |
Slave revolt in S. Italy led by the gladiator Spartacus | put down by Crassus |
Pompey's reorganizaton of the East | including Roman annexation of Syria and nearby areas |
First triumvirate | Pompey, Crassus, and Caesar |
Pompey | military great |
Crassus | economic great |
Caesar | Political great |
Parthian campaign of Crassus | ending in his defeat and death at Carrhae |
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