Battles
Geography
Figures
Politics
Latin words
100
This man installed himself as perpetual dictator in 48 BC.
What is the Battle of Actium
100
These mountains provide a natural border for norther Italy.
What are the Alps?
100
This man was censor and fought against the increasing amount of Hellenism he saw in Roman society
Who is Cato (the Elder)?
100
This was the tactic of civil disobedience used by the early Plebeians to get their voices heard in the Roman Republic.
What is seccession?
100
This was the device the Romans invented to turn their tactical disadvantage (naval warfare) into their strength (infantry combat).
What is the corvus (or crow/raven). Bonus: How did it work?
200
This battle in 197 BC signifies the beginning of the Roman expansion into the Eastern Mediterranean and their contact with Greek culture. Its name literally means "dog's head".
What is the battle or cynoscephalae
200
This is the island off the coast of Italy where the fighting between Carthaginians and Romans grew from a small squirmish into an all out war.
What is Sicily?
200
These are the twins who suckled at the teet of the she-wolf, one of whom went on to become the founding King of Rome.
Who are Romulus and Remus?
200
When there was an emergency situation, and the Republic's two consuls could not agree on a course of action, there was a provision in the constitution that this person could be elected with the special (temporary) power of imperium to deal with the particular problem.
What is a dictator?
200
These were the lists that recorded who was consul for each year of the Roman Republic
What are the Fasti?
300
It was at this battle that Hannibal handed the Romans their worst defeat yet, killing somewhere between 40,000-50,000 soldiers in one day.
What is the battle of Cannae?
300
This part of the Italian Peninsula was famous for hot springs and a rather hot mountain, named Vesuvius.
What is Campania?
300
This man was hired by the Greeks of Tarentum in Southern Italy to fend off the Roman expansion. Although he won the initial battles against the Romans, he suffered so many casualties that he thought he couldn't survive another 'victory'
Who is Pyrrhus of Epirus?
300
This was the Plebeian version of a consul.
What is Tribune?
300
This is the characteristic Roman virtue of standing by one's principles in the face of great adversity.
What is severitas (severity)? Bonus: who exemplified this virtue when he was forced to kill his own sons who had begun an uprising after he was trying to begin the Roman Republic as one its first consuls?
400
This is the battle lead by Scipio (later named Scipio Africanus because of his success in this battle) where he defeated Hannibal and the Carthaginians, effectively ending the Second Punic War.
What is the Battle of Zama (202 BC)?
400
This valley came to be called Gallia Cisalpina because of the invasion of Gauls/Celts into the region. Initially, it was everywhere south of this valley that was called Italy.
What is the Po Valley.
400
A Greek historian, this man set out to answer the question of why Rome was expand its territory so quickly.
Who is Polybius?
400
This man initiated reforms in the way soldiers were drafted to deal with a shortage of soldiers in the legions.
Who is Marius?
400
This is the law that effectively ended the Struggle of the Orders and folded the Plebeians into the Roman Republic.
What is the lex hortensius?
500
This battle was the gravest defeat yet for the Early Romans (c. 400 BC), which nearly convinced them to move their city to a new location.
What is the (semi-legendary) Battle of Allia, 390 BC. BONUS (500): what important change did this battle encourage in the Roman military strategy?
500
This is the small Roman protectorate town in Spain kicked off the Second Punic War.
What is Saguntum?
500
This man is the semi-mythical founder of the Roman people.
Who is Aeneas?
500
This semi-mythical story was supposed to be the reason why the Romans abandoned monarchy and established a republic instead.
What is the Rape of Lucretia?
500
This is the treaty (or non-aggression pact) signed by the peoples of the Plain of Latium.
What is the Foedus Cassianus?
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