Scullard 12

Question 1

“Point at which Roman history emerges from the shadow land into the daylight”

Answer 1

264 bc

Question 2

288 bc

Answer 2

Mamertines conquer messana

Question 3

264bc

Answer 3

Heiro seiges messana, gets stoped by Carthage, Roman’s called in

Question 4

Roman actions after messana

Answer 4

Protects the city after the consuls make the comitia choose war and the senate says ok I guess but then the city is seized by Carthage and Syracuse

Question 5

Seige of messana #2

Answer 5

Romans break the seige via appius Claudius making syracusians and Carthage mad at each other

Question 6

Siege of Syracuse #1

Answer 6

Manius valerius fails to take the city in 263 but ends up with a treaty with heiro

Question 7

262 bc

Answer 7

Romans sack and seige argrigentum the Carthaginian stronghold home to 50,000 soldiers

Question 8

260 bc

Answer 8

Mylae - Roman fleet of apprx 140 beats a Carthaginian one of apprx 130 perhaps using the Corvus

Question 9

Roman commander at mylae

Answer 9

G. Duillius, got a commemorative column

Question 10

Who was the inspiration for the 1st Roman invasion of Africa?

Answer 10

Agathocles did it a while ago

Question 11

256 bc naval

Answer 11

Attius regulus and manlius vulso beat a Carthaginian army which tried to encircle them at cape economus

Question 12

Hardest fought of ancient navel actions in the western Mediterranean

Answer 12

Ecnomus

Question 13

Height of regulus’ campaign

Answer 13

Makes camp 1 days march from Carthage and begins negotiations of surrender but Carthage rejects them for being too severe

Question 14

Land battle 255

Answer 14

Bagradas valley- regulus captured, Roman’s routed using Hannibal’s esque tactics by xanthippus

Question 15

255 naval battle

Answer 15

Cape hermaeum- Roman’s actually decisively win and secure naval dominance but they are left just to pick up the survivors of bagradas and then get caught in a storm and loose 250 ships

Question 16

Battle 254

Answer 16

Panoramas carried by seige from the land and sea for the Roman’s

Question 17

Battle 250

Answer 17

Roman’s successfully defeat the Carthaginians and defend panormus leading to further attacks

Question 18

Seige 250

Answer 18

Roman fail to take lillybaeum despite trying out a scientific seige for the first time

Question 19

Battle of drepana

Answer 19

Claudius pulcher after killing some birds gets badly beat by Carthaginian’s under adherbal

Question 20

Cape passaro

Answer 20

249- Iunius pullus is driven ashore by carthalo, but ends up taking Eryx and the temple of Aphrodite isolating drepana

Question 21

Hamilcar in 1st Punic war

Answer 21

Given command in 247, conducts naval raids on Italian coast, recaptures erynx and hercte, guirrilla raids panormus and Roman seiges in lillybaeum

Question 22

242- march 241

Answer 22

Romans rebuild a fleet and use it under the leadership of lutatius Catullus to route the Carthaginians at aerates islands and take lillybaeum and drepana by sea

Question 23

Outcomes of 1st Punic

Answer 23

Rome gets Sicily, lots of money

Question 24

The forever war

Answer 24

After the peace of 241, Carthage gets almost taken by mercenaries who make a rebellion in Libya and the Roman help but not really then Hamilcar takes command and totally beats everyone and stabilizes Africa so Rome gets mad and takes Sardinia and Corsica threatening war if Carthage doesn’t just let them and pay them too

Question 25

Temple of Janus doors closed in when ?

Answer 25

After 1st Punic war

Question 26

236 bc- Gallic

Answer 26

Romans are briefly threatened by boii but they put an army in arminiaand it quiets down

Question 27

Cape Telemon

Answer 27

225- Huge mass of Gauls (almost 70,000!) tries to take Italy but is surrounded and massacred by a Roman army of 130,0-0

Question 28

224 Gallic

Answer 28

Romans take cisalpine Gaul

Question 29

223 Gaul

Answer 29

G. Flaminius defeats insuberes after crossing the po and burning his bridges

Question 30

222 Gaul

Answer 30

Marcus Claudius Marcellus spoelia optima’s virodomarus cheif of the insuberes at clastidium

Question 31

censor 219

Answer 31

g. flaminius

Question 32

consul 232

Answer 32

flaminius a novus homo

Question 33

province 227

Answer 33

sardinia+corsica

Question 34

diplomacy 228

Answer 34

romans admitted to teh isthmian games after their affairs in illyria