Mediterranean Hegemony 272-133 BC

Question 1

272 BC

Answer 1

Rome defeats Tarentum

Question 2

264-241 BC

Answer 2

First Punic War. Rome gains Sicily.

Question 3

225 BC

Answer 3

Battle of Telamon. Defeat of Gauls in North Italy

Question 4

218-201 BC

Answer 4

Second Punic War. Hannibal invades Italy.

Question 5

216 BC

Answer 5

Battle of Cannae. Hannibal defeats Rome.

Question 6

213-211 BC

Answer 6

Capture of Syracuse

Question 7

202 BC

Answer 7

Battle of Zama. Scipio Africanus defeats Hannibal.

Question 8

197 BC

Answer 8

Battle of Cynosephale.

Antigonid Macedon defeated

King Phillip the V

Question 9

193-188 BC

Answer 9

Seleucids Lose Kid

Antiochus III
King of Seleucid Syria.

Syria renounces Asia Minor claims.

Question 10

189 BC

Answer 10

Manlius Vulso Galatian Campaign

Question 11

184 BC

Answer 11

Cato the Elder censorship

Question 12

168 BC (2 Events)

Answer 12

Battle of Pydna. Perseus of Antigonid Macedon defeated. Kingdom of Macedon abolished.

Seleucid Antiochus IV forbidden by Senate to invade Egypt

Question 13

167-150 BC (Literature)

Answer 13

Polybius hostage in Rome

Question 14

149-146 BC (in the west)

Answer 14

Third Punic War.

Question 15

146 BC

Answer 15

Corinth and Carthage destroyed.

Question 16

133 BC (In the East)

Answer 16

Attalus of Pergamum leaves his kingdom to Rome