a system of money in general use in a particular country
What is currency
100
son of Hamilcar Barca, was a Punic Carthaginian military commander, generally considered one of the greatest military commanders in history.
What is Hannibal
100
died 71 b.c, Thracian slave, gladiator, and insurrectionist.
What is Spartacus
100
the long period of relative peace and minimal expansion by the Roman military force experienced by the Roman Empire after the end of the Final War of the Roman Republic and before the beginning of the Crisis of the Third Century.
What is Pax Romana
200
a ruler with absolute power
What is dictator
200
in ancient Rome) a commoner.
What is plebeian
200
234–149 b.c, Roman statesman, soldier, and writer.
What is cato
200
106–48 b.c, Roman general and statesman: a member of the first triumvirate.
What is Pompey
200
the bodyguard of the Roman emperor.
What is Praetorian Guard
300
the founder of the Roman Empire and its first Emperor, ruling from 27 BC until his death in 14 AD. He was born Gaius Octavius into an old and wealthy equestrian branch of the plebeian Octavii family.
What is Octavian(Augustus)
300
a member of an Oscan-speaking people of southern Italy in ancient times, who spent long periods at war with republican Rome in the 4th to 1st centuries BC.
What is Samnite
300
an island in the Mediterranean, constituting a region of Italy, and separated from the SW tip of the mainland by the Strait of Messina: largest island in the Mediterranean.
What is sicily
300
a Roman general who ended the roman republic when he seized power and became dictator for life
What is Julius Caesar
300
a Roman politician and general who played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic from an oligarchy into the autocratic Roman Empire.
What is Antony
400
an ancient city-state in N Africa, near modern Tunis: founded by the Phoenicians in the middle of the 9th century b.c.; destroyed in 146 b.c. in the last of the Punic Wars.
What is Carthage
400
a native or inhabitant of ancient Gaul.
What is Gual
400
the keeping of slaves as a practice or institution.
What is slavery
400
a republic in SW Asia at the E end of the Mediterranean
What is Syria
400
a European butterfly related to the brimstone, with wings that vary from pale cream to orange-yellow.
What is Cleopatra
500
a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.
What is Republic
500
a native of ancient Etruria.
What is Etruscan
500
series of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage from 264 BC to 146 BC. At the time, they were probably the largest wars that had ever taken place.
What is Punic Wars
500
an island republic in the Mediterranean, S of Turkey: formerly a British colony; independent since 1960.
What is Cyprus
500
he largest hot desert and third largest desert after Antarctica and the Arctic.