Places
Hannibal crossed this river in Spain.
Ebro
An office appointed by the Senate with total authority to save the State.
Dictator
The word "Punic" is a Latin word meaning...
Phoenician
This battle saw Roman trumpeters save the day by scaring some elephants.
Zama Regia
He possesses a plethora of writing utensils.
Mr. Severino
This city is named for Hannibal's father.
Barcelona
This general severely annoyed the Roman public with his delaying tactics.
Fabius Maximus
Hannibal's Father was named...
Hamilcar Barca
This battle was the worst defeat yet suffered by a Roman army, and it cost the city hundreds of noblemen.
Cannae
The average attention span of the class.
~8 minutes
The site of the first massive Roman defeat to Hannibal in Italy.
Lake Trasimene
This city called the Romans to fight in Sicily in the First Punic War... fatefully.
Messana
This mineral was plentiful in Spain, much to Carthage's delight.
Silver
This was the first battle in which elephants fought against Romans.
Trebia
The name of the first duck.
Eustace
The Romans had to reconquer this large Sicilian city in the Second Punic War, after confronting solar beams of death.
Syracuse
This young general had conquered Spain for the Romans by 206 BC.
Publius Cornelius Scipio
Crossing a swamp in Italy, Hannibal developed an infection that required him to remove one of these.
An eye.
An almost-battle was averted by a trapped Hannibal through the cunning use of this animal.
Oxen
Mr. Trull used to live in this
A tiny house on wheels
Greek settlement in Spain that the Romans were supposed to help, but didn't, when Hannibal came calling.
Saguntum
This general raised the largest army Rome had ever seen, and then fled from it on horseback when the army met with disaster.
Varro
This brother of Hannibal led the defense of Spain.
Hasdrubal
An anonymous Roman soldier killed this genius when fighting in Sicily.
Archimedes
The name of the event the class will be putting on this year instead of the Symposium.
Freshman Orations