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13 Cards in this Set
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Battle of Kadesh
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1274 BC; one of the earliest battles in recorded history; between Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II and the Hittite king Muwatalli II; the largest chariot battle in history
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Marathon
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490 BC; King Darius I’s invasion of mainland Greece; Greek messenger Pheidippides ran to Athens with news of the victory
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Thermopylae
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480 BC; first battle of the second Persian invasion of Greece; Greeks were betrayed by Ephialtes
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Salamis
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480 BC; naval battle; beginning of the end of Persian attempts to conquer Greece
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Battle of Aegospotami
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405 BC; ended the Peloponnesian War and the Athenian Empire
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Issus
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333 BC; second major battle between Alexander the Great and the Persian Empire; subject of a 1528 painting by Albrecht Altdorfer
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Cannae
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216 BC; one of the worst defeats in Roman history; resulted in Romans adopting Fabian strategy; largest battle of the Second Punic War
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Zama
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202 BC; near Carthage in modern-day Tunisia; led to a complete Roman victory
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Alesia
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52 BC; established Roman rule of the lands beyond the Alps; turning point of the Gallic Wars
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Actium
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31 BC; Octavian defeated the combined forces of Cleopatra and Mark Antony; signals the end of the Roman Republic
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Battle of the Milvian Bridge
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AD 312; Maxentius drowned in the Tiber River during the battle; Constantine became sole ruler of the Roman Empire, and ended persecution of the Christians;
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Battle of Adrianople
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AD 378; beginning of the spread of Germanic peoples into the Western Roman Empire
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Battle of Catalaunian Plains
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AD 451; epic battle between the Romans and the Huns fought in what is now France
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