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19 Cards in this Set
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753 BCE
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-Foundation of Rome by Romulus and Remus
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509 BCE
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-Beginning of the Roman Republic
-Tarquin the Proud deposed as king |
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218-201 BCE
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-Second Punic War
-Hannibal invades Italy through Hispania and crosses the Alps with war elephants -Hannibal is never once defeated in Italy, but cannot besiege Rome because he lost his siege weaponry in the Alpine crossing -Scipio Africanus is sent to strike at Carthage itself, after which Hannibal is recalled by Carthage |
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202 BCE
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-Defeat of Hannibal at Zama by Scipio Africanus
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148 BCE
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-Macedon becomes a Roman province
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146 BCE
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-Destruction of Carthage and Corinth
-Greece becomes a Roman province under the name of Achaea |
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133 BCE
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-Tribunate (and assassination) of Tiberius Gracchus
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123-121 BCE
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-Tribunate of Gaius Gracchus
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107 BCE
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-Military reforms of Marius
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82 BCE
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-Sulla's dictatorship
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73-71 BCE
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-Spartacus' Revolt
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60 BCE
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-First Triumvirate of Crassus, Pompey and Caesar
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59-50 BCE
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-Caesar conquers Gaul
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49 BCE
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-Caesar crosses the Rubicon River and starts a civil war against Pompey
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44 BCE
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-Caesar's assassination
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43 BCE
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-Second Triumvirate of Lepidus, Marc Antony and Octavian
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31 BCE
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-Battle of Actium where Octavian defeated Marc Antony and Cleopatra
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27 BCE
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-Octavian becomes Augustus
-Conventional end-date of the Republic |
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14 CE
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-Augustus dies
-Tiberius (his wife Livia's son from her first marriage) succeeds as Emperor |
