Battles And Wars (509-390B.C,)

Question 1

At What battle of 509 B.C. Was one of the first two consuls slain?

Answer 1

Silva Arsia (Brutus)

Question 2

What year did the battle of Silva Arsia take place?

Answer 2

509 B.C.

Question 3

Lake Regillus was a battle fought in what year?

Answer 3

496 B.C.

Question 4

Against what enemies did the Romans fight in 496 B.C. ?

Answer 4

Tarquinius “Superbus”; the Latin League; (Octavius Mamilius)

Question 5

What battle against a former king of Rome took place in 496 B.C. ?

Answer 5

Battle of Lake Regillus

Question 6

What battle agianst Veii, where a noble gens was almost completely wiped out, took place in 477 B.C. (Alternate date 479 B.C.)?

Answer 6

Cremera

Question 7

What clan (gens) was almost completely wiped out at Cremera?

Answer 7

The Fabii

Question 8

What year was the battle of Cremera, where a the Fabii family suffered suffered enough casualties to leave them with only one male heir?

Answer 8

477 B.C. (Alternate date: 479 B.C.)

Question 9

Who was elected dictator to rescue Minucius’s army from the Aquii

Answer 9

Cincinnatus

Question 10

At what battle of 458 B.C. did Cincinnatus rescue a roman army facing defeat from a hostile Aquii army

Answer 10

Mt. Algidus

Question 11

What year was the battle of Mt. Algidus: where Cincinnatus rescued a trapped Roman army.

Answer 11

458 B.C.

Question 12

What Gallic chieftain fought Rome in 390 B.C. at the Allia River before sacking Rome, and using a tampered scale duting negotiations afterwards uttering “Vae Victis:” Woe to the conquered?

Answer 12

Brennus

Question 13

What year did was the battle of the Allia River?

Answer 13

390 B.C.

Question 14

What battle, fought in 390 B.C., was a Roman defeat at the hand of the senones’s chieftain Brennus?

Answer 14

Allia River