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Gaul Defeats Rome
In 390 BCE, Gaul invaded and defeated Rome which was a crushing blow. This caused Rome to change the formation of their army during battles -
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Rome wins Pyrrhic War
In a series of battles from 280-275 BCE, Rome defeated Pyrrhus of Epirus and his Greek army. -
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First Punic War Starts
RomeThe First Punic War broke out in 264 B.C. when Rome interfered the Carthaginian-controlled island of Sicily; the war ended with Rome in control of both Sicily and Corsica and marked the empire’s emergence as a naval as well as a land power. This link is a video of the Punic Wars -
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Second Punic War Starts
In 218 BCE, the Second Punic War starts. In the Second Punic War, the Carthaginian general Hannibal invaded Italy and scored great victories at Lake Trasimene and Cannae before his eventual defeat at the hands of the Romans in 202 B.C. -
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The Start of the First Macedonian War
The First Macedonian War started in 214 BCE and was fought and won by Rome against Philip V of Macedon during the same time as the Second Punic War. -
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The Start of the Second Macedonian War
This war started in 200 BCE and was the defeat of Philip who was forced to abandon all his possessions in southern Greece, Thrace and Asia Minor. -
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Start of the Third Macedonian War
In 171 BCE, this war started and was fought between Rome and King Perseus of Macedon. Perseus was defeated by the legions of the Roman consul Lucius Aemilius Paullus at the Battle of Pydna in 168 BC. This defeat was due to the inflexibility of Macedonian phalanx tactics compared to the maniple-based tactics of the Roman legions -
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The Start of the Fourth Macedonian War
The Fourth Macedonian War, which started in 150 BCE, was fought between the Roman Republic and a Greek uprising led by the Macedonian pretender to the throne. Andriscus was eventually defeated by the Roman general Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus at the Second Battle of Pydna in 148 BCE. -
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Life in Late Roman Republic
Rome This takes place around 63 BCE during Civil War time in Rome. Everybody was thieves, some stealing houses and others stealing land. This period was one of debauched tastes and lawlessness. -
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The Creation of the First Triumvirate
The First Triumvirate was an unofficial political alliance between three prominent Roman politicians which included Julius Caesar, Pompey the Great and Marcus Licinius Crassus -
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Julius Caesar Starts a War against Pompey
In 49 BCE, Caesar starts a war against Pompey after Pompey was elected consul without colleague in 52 BC. Caesar would eventually win even though Pompey's army heavily outnumbered Caesar's. -
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The Assassination of Julius Caesar
Rome Some of Caesar's aquaintances were conspiring a way to kill Caeser. They decided to do it during a Senate meeting which Caesar would be attending, so everybody decided to bring their dagger. Caesar was hacked like a Thanksgiving Day turkey. There was so much hacking that most of the people who were involved in this had a cut by the end. -
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The Fall of the Roman Empire
The Fall of the Roman Empire finally came in 476 AD after several bad defeats. Two of these defeats inculded a catastrophic loss to the Visgoths in 378 AD and a bad loss to Attila the Hun in 451 AD. By 476, the last of the Western Roman emperors were replaced by Germans -
The Start of the Third Punic War
Starting in 149 BCE, the Romans, led by Scipio the Younger, captured and destroyed the city of Carthage in 146 BCE, turning Africa into yet another province of the mighty Roman Empire. -
Rome at the End of the Punic Wars
[Rome](legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/polybius6.asp) In 146 BCE, the best authority of this time was Polybius. He was born in Arcadia, in 204 BCE and died in 122 BCE. Polybius was fortunate to be able to live with the Scipios. He was present at the destructions of Carthage and Corinth, in 146 BCE, and did more than anyone else to get the Greeks to accept the inevitable Roman rule.
