Dates Pt. 7; Hellenistic Period 2

Question 1

Beginning of the Second Macedonian War. Sparta allies with Macedon, receives Argos.

Answer 1

200 BCE; Beginning of the 2nd Macedonian War 200-196 BCE.

Question 2

T. Quinticus Flamininus crosses over to Greece. Alliance made between Achaean League and Rome.

Answer 2

198 BCE

Question 3

Nabis defects to Rome. Flamininus wins B. of Cynoscephalae. End of Second Macedonian War (Treaty of Tempe).

Answer 3

197 BCE

Question 4

Achaean League persuades Romans to fight war against Nabis. Argos is taken from Sparta and becomes part of Achaean League. Flamininus proclaims the freedom of the Greeks at the Isthmian Games. Rosetta stone inscribed.

Answer 4

196 BCE

Question 5

Hannibal flees to the court of Antiochus, King of Syria. Lex Porcia preventing citizens from being executed (one of several such laws) passed.

Answer 5

195 BCE

Question 6

Pergamon appeals to Rome for help against Antiochus, Flamininus sent as envoy, prevents Philopoemon from taking Sparta. Beginning of Syrian War.

Answer 6

193 BCE

Question 7

Nabis betrayed and assassinated by the Aetolian League. Philopoemon makes Sparta member of Achaean League. Antiochus crosses over to Greece at behest of Aetolian League.

Answer 7

192 BCE

Question 8

Cato the Elder defeats Antiochus at B. of Thermopylae, Antiochus retreats to Asia.

Answer 8

191 BCE

Question 9

L. Cornelius Scipio (brother of Africanus) defeats Antiochus at B. of Magnesia. Antiochus withdraws beyond the Taurus Mountains, Aetolian League surrenders in the next year.

Answer 9

190 BCE

Question 10

Treaty of Apamea. End of Syrian War.

Answer 10

188 BCE

Question 11

Cato the Elder charges L. and P. Scipio with bribery. P. Scipio retires to exile.

Answer 11

185 BCE

Question 12

Cato the Elder elected Censor, builds first known basilica. Plautus dies.

Answer 12

184 BCE

Question 13

Hannibal is killed. Philopoemon killed by rebels in Messene.

Answer 13

183 BCE

Question 14

Perseus becomes king in Macedon, after having arranged for his brother Demetrius to die in 180.
After three years the Romans end the largely uneventful First Celtiberian War with victory.

Answer 14

179 BCE

Question 15

Eumenes II of Pergamon travels to Rome to warn of Perseus’ ambitions, is nearly killed at Delphi.

Answer 15

172 BCE

Question 16

Third Macedonian War begins.

Answer 16

172-68

Question 17

Perseus wins B. of Callicinus.

Answer 17

171 BCE

Question 18

Rhodes presumptuously tries to act as mediator between Rome and Macedon.

Answer 18

169 BCE

Question 19

L. Aemlius Paulus wins the B. of Pydna against Perseus, ending the Third Macedonian war. Rome demands hostages from Greek Leagues (who had remained neutral), among them Polybius.

Answer 19

168 BCE

Question 20

Maccabean Revolt against Seleucids begins. Romans attempt to suborn the rule of Eumenes II.

Answer 20

167 BCE

Question 21

Rome makes Delos a free port to spite Rhodes. Rhodes submits to a humiliating alliance two years later.

Answer 21

166 BCE

Question 22

Terence’s plays begin to be performed. Maccabees ally with Rome. Monumentalization of Pergamon.

Answer 22

161 BCE

Question 23

Maccabean Revolt ends with new Jewish state.

Answer 23

160 BCE

Question 24

Cato the Elder sent to arbitrate a dispute between Numidia and Carthage.

Answer 24

157 BCE

Question 25

Lusitanian War (Fiery War) begins.

Answer 25

155 BCE

Question 26

Situation in Spain grim (Numantia revolted in the previous winter, starting Second Celtiberian War). Consuls take office in Jan. 1 (rather than March 15) for the first time.

Answer 26

153 BCE

Question 27

Finding that Numantia had made peace, L. Licinius Lucullus starts war with new tribes, conducts massacres.

Answer 27

151 BCE

Question 28

S. Sulpicus Galba kills 10,000 Lusitanians after they had surrendered.

Answer 28

150 BCE

Question 29

Third Punic War begins.

Answer 29

149-46 BCE

Question 30

Viriatus, a survivor of Galba’s massacre, becomes king of the Lusitanians. Andriscus, a pretender to the Macedonian throne, is defeated at the B. of Pydna. Macedon becomes a province.

Answer 30

148 BCE

Question 31

L. Mummius sacks Corinth ending the Achaean War. Scipio Africanus Minor sacks Carthage, ending the Third Punic War.

Answer 31

146 BCE

Question 32

Numantia revolts (again). Start of Numantine War.

Answer 32

143 BCE

Question 33

Viriatus assassinated. End of Lustiantian War.

Answer 33

139 BCE

Question 34

G. Hostilius Mancinus surrounded and forced to surrender. Senate reneges on treaty he made.

Answer 34

136 BCE

Question 35

Tribunate of Ti. Gracchus, who is killed by senatorial mob (Scipio Nasica) after ignoring the senate and deposing a tribune in order to pass land reform legislation. Attalus III dies heirless and bequeaths Pergamon to Rome. Scipio Africanus the Younger takes Numantia. End of Numantine War.

Answer 35

133 BCE