dates for test 2

Question 1

via Appia completed

Answer 1

312

Question 2

king Pyrrhus of Epirus invades Italy, wins victory at Heracles

Answer 2

280

Question 3

Pyrrhus wins ‘Pyrrhic victory’ at Ausculum ; leaves for Syracuse

Answer 3

279

Question 4

Pyrrhus returns to Italy and is defeated at Beneventum

Answer 4

275

Question 5

Rome captures Tarentum

Answer 5

272

Question 6

First Punic War

Answer 6

264 - 241

Question 7

only major Roman defeats in the First Punic War

Answer 7

255, 249

Question 8

sicily is the first roman province

Answer 8

241

Question 9

Sardinia and corsica provinces; Carthage turns to Spanish conquest

Answer 9

237

Question 10

siege of Saguntum

Answer 10

219

Question 11

Second Punic War

Answer 11

218 - 201

Question 12

battles of Ticinum and Trebia

Answer 12

218

Question 13

Battle of Lake Trasimene

Answer 13

217

Question 14

Battle of Lake Cannae

Answer 14

216

Question 15

Hannibal takes Capua and is supported by Macedonia and Syracuse

Answer 15

215

Question 16

defeat of Hasdrubal at Metaurus river

Answer 16

207

Question 17

Romans conquer Spain

Answer 17

206

Question 18

end of First Macedonia War

Answer 18

205

Question 19

Scipio invades Africa

Answer 19

204

Question 20

Hannibal recalled

Answer 20

203

Question 21

Battle of Zama

Answer 21

202

Question 22

treaty signed

Answer 22

201

Question 23

Spain made into two provinces

Answer 23

197

Question 24

Philip V defeated Cynoscephalae (Second Macedonian War)

Answer 24

197

Question 25

Antiochus III of Syria defeated at Magnesia

Answer 25

190

Question 26

Third Macedonian War ends at Pydna

Answer 26

168

Question 27

Illyricum made a province

Answer 27

167

Question 28

Third Punic War ; destruction of Carthage ; Africa made a province

Answer 28

149 - 146

Question 29

Fourth Macedonian War ends

Answer 29

148

Question 30

Revolt of Achaean League ; Achaea and Macedonia made a province

Answer 30

146

Question 31

Tiberius Gracchus, tribune of the plebs

Answer 31

133

Question 32

Gaius Gracchus, tribune of the plebs

Answer 32

123 - 122

Question 33

Gaius Marius, consul six times, five times in a row (104 -100)

Answer 33

107 - 100

Question 34

Social War

Answer 34

91 - 87

Question 35

siege of Rome

Answer 35

82

Question 36

Sulla dictator

Answer 36

81 - early 80

Question 37

revolt of Spartacus in Italy

Answer 37

73 - 71

Question 38

Pompey and Crassus consul

Answer 38

70

Question 39

Gaius Julius Caesar consul

Answer 39

59

Question 40

Caesar begins first five-year command in Gaul

Answer 40

58