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What Roman was Sabine in origin, migrated c. 504

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Attus Clausus

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What name did Attus Clausus take

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Appius Claudius

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Plebeian leader who signed a treaty with the Latins in 494, and was killed in 485 for “regal aspirations”

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Spurius Cassius

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What did the nexum state

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that a lender could execute a debtor

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What year was the first plebeian succession

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494

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Where did the plebs secede to in 494

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Mons Sacer

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Who convinced the plebs to return

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Menenius Agrippa

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What law bound the Plebs to a sworn confederacy

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Lex Sacrata

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Who first proposed a codification of Roman law in 461

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Terentilius Harsa

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Consuls of 449 who passed the Valerio-Horation laws

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Valerius Potitus and Horatius Barbatus

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What law gave every citizen the right to appeal a consul

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Lex Valeria

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12
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Law that allowed intermarriage

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Canuleian Law (445)

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What year was the military tribune established

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444

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What year was the censorship established

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443

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What body did the lex Publilia of 471 create

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concilium plebis tributum

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Who aided the Romans at Aricia (506)

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Aristodemus of Cumae

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With whom did the Romans establish a divide and conquer technique against the Aequi and Volsci

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Hernici

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Name of the Sabine chief who stole by night into Rome and occupied the Citadel on the Capitoline

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Appius Herdonius (460)

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Battle in 431 where Romans defeat Aequi

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Mt. Algidus

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Commander at Mt. Algidus in 431

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A. Postumius Tubertus

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City the Romans attempted to seize in 79

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Fidenae

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Where did the Romans almost lose the Fabian clan

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Cremera

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Name of the Roman Commander who slew the king of Veians in 426 (Tolumnius)

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Aulus Cornelius Cossus

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What law prohibited usury

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Lex Genucia - 342 BC

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What law altered the nexum
Lex Poetelia
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Aedile of 309 BC who published a set of civil laws which elaborated on the 12 Tables
Cn. Flavius
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Name the two tribunes of 376 BC
L. Sextius and L. Licinius Stolo
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What was the land limit set by the Lex Licinia Sextia
500 iugera
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In what year was the praetorship created
366
30
What is a citizen's right to appeal the decision of a magistrate called
Provocatio
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What law confirmed the right of provocatio
Lex Valeria - 300 BC
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What was the first establishment of prorogation imperii
Publilius - 326 BC
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What law established a ten year interval between magistracies
Lex Genucia - 342 BC
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What was the word a tribune used to proclaim his veto
Intercedo
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With whom did the Romans make peace in 331 BC
Senones
36
What two tribes did the Romans defeat in 351 BC
Tarquinii and Falerii
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In what year did the Romans sign a treaty with the Samnites
359 BC
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In what year did the Romans renounce their treat with the Samnites
343 BC
39
When did the Romans renew their treaty with Carthage
348 BC
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Where did the Romans and Samnites defeat the Latins and Campanians
Suessa Aurunca (340)
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What town did the Romans take from the Volsci during the Latin War
Antium
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What colony did the Romans establish in 339 BC to secure Capua against the Samnites
Cales
43
What Greek town did the Romans take from the Samnites in 326 BC
Neopolis
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What outpost did the Samnites receive after the defeat at Caudine Forks
Fregellae
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Where did the Via Appia originally run to
Capua
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Where did Q. Fabius Rullianus redeem his defeat at Lautulae in 310 BC
Ciminian mountains
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Where did Rullianus follow up the victory after the Ciminian mountains
Lake Vadimo
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Who did the Samnites attempt to ally with by force in 298 BC
Lucanians
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What Roman led the force that expelled the Samnites from Lucania
L. Scipio Barbatus
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Who attacked Rome after the Gauls were defeated
Boii - 283 BC
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Who put down the Boii's advance at Lake Vadimo
P. Cornelius Dolabella
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Name the Spartan king who assisted the Tarentines against the Lucanians
Archidamus
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What Greek king did the Tarentines enlist to help against the Lucanians and negotiate a settlement w/ Rome
Alexander of Epirus
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Who was the Carthagenian ambassador who negotiated a treaty with Rome in regard to Pyrrhus
Mago
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Who did Rome obtain a grant of amicitia from in 273 BC
King Ptolemy II of Egypt
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In what year did Tarentum surrender
272 BC
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Where did Gellius Egnatius defeat Scipio Barbatus
Camerinum
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Who seized Messana in 269 BC
Hiero II
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What consul, in his military failure, gained an alliance with Hiero
Manius Valerius (assumed cognomen Messala)
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What despot of Syracuse had invaded Carthage in the late 9th century BC almost destroying them
Agathocles
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What Carthaginian city in Sicily did the Romans take in 259 BC
Panormus
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What Carthaginian city in Sicily did the romans unsuccessfully attempt to siege in 249 BC
Lilybaeium
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What consul in 249 BC was defeated at Cape Passsaro
Iunius Pullus
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What two strongholds did Hamilcar Barca seize, thus making it possible to carry out guerrilla tactics against the Romans
Mt. Hercte and Mt. Eryx
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In what year was Flaminius made censor
220 BC
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When was Flaminius elected consul, thus becoming a novus homo
223 BC
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What other road, built parallel to the Via Flaminia, ran from Tuscany to Pisae
Via Aurelia
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What was Hamilcar Barca's relation to Hasdrubal
Father-in-law
69
What impressive base did Hasdrubal establish in Spain
Carthago Nova
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In what year was the Ebro treaty agreed upon
226 BC

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