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7 Cards in this Set
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PERSIAN WARS
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499-479 B.C.; PERSIA AND GREECE...PERSIA WANTED TO GAIN GREECE BECAUSE THEY HAD EVERYONE ELSE BUT THEM, BUT GREECE WOULD NOT LET THEM CONQUER. "300"
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PELOPPENISIAN WAR
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431-404 B.C. ATHENS vs. SPARTA; SPARTA WINS. IT WAS BECAUSE SPARTA WAS TIRED OF ATHENS ABUSING THEIR POWER
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PUNIC WARS
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264-146 B.C. ROMANS v. CARTHAGINIANS AND THE ROMANS WON. BECAUSE ROME WATED TO EXPAND EMPIRE.
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BATTLE OF ACTIUM
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31 A.D; BATTLE IN ROME TO END HELLENISTIC AGE AND RESULTS IN THE PAX ROMANA...CLEOPATRA WANTED A SEA BATTLE AND HER SHIP HEADED BACK TO EGYPT SO OCTAVIAN GOES AND FOLLOWS AND SHE GOES BACK TO A TOWER WITH JEWELS AND POISONOUS SNAKES. MARK ANTONY ARRIVES AND IS TOLD THAT SHE IS BITTEN BY A SNAKE SO HE TRIES TO FALL ON A SWORD?? MYTH? MAYBE.
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HUNDRED YEARS' WAR
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1337-1453; FRENCH v. ENGLAND BECAUSE FRENCH CONQUERED AQUITAINE AND THE ENGLISH WANTED TO TAKE OVER.
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WAR OF THE ROSES
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1453; CIVIL WAR IN ENGLAND OVER THE THRONE; LANDCASTER v. YORK AND LANDCASTER WON.
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30 YEARS' WAR
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1618-1648; LAST GREAT RELIGIOUS WAR; CATHOLICS, CALVINISTS, LUTHERANS; IN THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE; IT ENDED WITH THE TREATY OF WESTPHALIA
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