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Western civ test 4
| 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 |