The systematic use of spies to get military or political secrets.
What is espionage?
100
An effort to cut off food, supplies, war material or communications from a particular area by force.
What is a blockade?
100
A Greek infantry soldier.
What is a hoplite?
100
Hannibal was famous for using these animals in battle.
What are elephants?
100
This troop formation was superior to a phalanx because it was smaller and more flexible.
What is a legion?
200
The shape and features of a landscape.
What is terrain?
200
The plan or plans designed to achieve the overall goal in war.
What is a strategy?
200
The basic Greek military formation.
What is a phalanx?
200
Hannibal won this battle by luring the Romans across a cold river, then flanked them with troops positioned away from the main force.
What is Trebia?
200
A centurion is in charge of this many men.
What is 80?
300
The specific movements, attacks, and other plans used on a battlefield.
What are tactics?
300
An army unit consisting of soldiers who fight with small, hand held weapons such as swords.
What is infantry?
300
The leader of Persia at the Battle of Marathon.
Who is Darius?
300
Hannibal defeated the Romans at this battle by luring the Romans into a narrow valley, then ambushed them with forces hidden in the low hills to the north of the valley.
What is Lake Trasimene?
300
This island was the primary objective of the First Punic War.
What is Sicily?
400
The exposed side of an army or combat unit with no friendly units covering it.
What is a flank?
400
Surrounding a defensive position such as a castle or fort and attacking it over a long period of time, sometimes directly with weapons and sometimes indirectly through starvation or isolation
What is a siege?
400
The general who defeated Persia at Marathon.
Who is Miltiades?
400
Hannibal defeated the Romans in this battle by allowing his center to slowly give way, then flanked and encircled the Romans.
What is Cannae?
400
This strategy, named for a Roman general, is an attempt to delay and use small skirmishes to wear down an enemy over time, rather than engaging in decisive confrontations.
What is a "Fabian" strategy?
500
Weapons such as cannons or howitzers that are usually operated by crews and fired long-range projectiles.
What is artillery?
500
The area in which a battle takes place, most often defined as the line between two opposing armies.
What is the front?
500
The Athenian general who defeated the Persian navy by tricking them into sailing into a trap in the Strait of Salamis.
Who is Themistocles?
500
Since Hannibal could not recruit enough allies to maintain the strength of his army so far from home, he was unable to do this.