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100

The Romans fought this battle against the Samnites and lost, having to pass under a yoke before getting ransomed back to Rome.

Caudine Forks

100
The Romans intervened in Sicily on behalf of Messana in its conflict with this city-state.

Syracuse

100

This Roman general drove the Senones away from Rome.

Furius Camillus
100

Carthage was founded by colonists from this place.

Phoenicia

200

The Romans won this naval battle in the north of Sicily in 260.

Mylae

200
The Carthaginian general who was stationed in Sicily and who fought a guerilla war against the Romans was...?

Hamilcar Barca

200

The Romans invented this after capturing a Carthaginian ship and copying it.

The corvus.
200

Hamilcar Barca goes here after leaving Carthage in disgust at the end of the First Punic War.

Spain

300

The Romans lost to Pyrrhus at a big battle held near this city in Magna Graecia.

Heraclea

300

This tribe of fighting shepherds lived in the central and eastern regions of Italia.

The Samnites

300

The person who ejected the Romans from Africa was named...?

Xanthippus

300

The last region conquered by the Romans (at long last!) before they turned their eyes towards Sicily.

Etruria

400
The Romans won a great battle at these islands, west of Sicily.

Aegates Islands

400
This city-state asked Pyrrhus to invade Italy to counter Roman aggression in Magna Graecia.

Tarentum

400

The Romans were set back in 255 by the loss of their fleet for this reason.

A giant storm

400

Pyrrhus (and Olympias) were from this country.

Epirus

500

This was the second great naval victory for the Romans in 260.

Ecnomus
500

Pyrrhus thought that he, too, could conquer the world because he was related to this person.

Alexander the Great
500
The Romans wanted to control Sicily because it would allow them to do this.

Control the Western Mediterranean Sea.

500
This modern-day city is named after Hamilcar Barca.

Barcelona