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Third Punic War
Carthage was burned to the ground in 146 BC. Masinissa, governor of Numidia and a strong ally of the Romans, was able to pick at Carthage until Carthage attacked Numidia in 150 BC, breaking the treaty that ended the Second War. Rome did little to stop Masinissa. Whenever Carthage complained to Rome about his actions, Rome sent a tribunal to them, and then decided in Masinissa's favor. Basically Carthage was pushed into fighting again. http://www.dl.ket.org/latinlit/historia/republic/punic4.htm -
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Alexander the Great Defeats Persians
331 BC-- Alexander began his war against the Persians in 334 BC. At the time the Macedonian leader was twenty-two years old. At his death eleven years later, Alexander ruled the largest empire of the ancient world. His victory at the battle of Gaugamela on the Persian plains was a decisive conquest that insured the defeat of his Persian rival King Darius III. http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/alexander.htm -
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Tiberius wins election
133 BC-- Tiberius lived from 168-133 BC. He was an officer in the Third Punic War. He was elected as quaestor because of his courage for going over the wall at Carthage first. When the current leader, Also, after his negotiation saved the lives of 20,000 Roman soldiers, he was elected to the tribunate in 133BC. http://www.roman-empire.net/republic/tib-gracchus.html -
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Tiberius is Clubbed to Death
133 BC-- The senate failed in an attempt to bar him from standing again, but a group of enraged senators, led by his hostile cousin Scipio Nasica, charged into an election rally of Tiberius', broke it up and, alas, clubbed him to death. Primary source: http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/tiberius.html http://www.roman-empire.net/republic/tib-gracchus.html -
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Julius Caesar dies
March 15, 44 BC. Caesar was assassinated because of his success as an army officer responsible for gaining a lot of territory. Sixty members of the Senate planned the only effective way they knew how to stop him: kill him. Primary source: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/caesar2.htm http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/caesar2.htm -
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The Deeds of Divine Augustus
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Fire that destroyed 70% of Roman merchant area
July 18, 64-- the fire lasted for six days and was blamed on the Christians as a kind of "revolt". -
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Revolt in the Capitol
Revolt in the capital began in 66 and went to 70. It was also called the "Great Revolt" because the Jews of Rome revolted against Rome itself. Rome imposed taxes on the Jews and replaced their high prist without their consent. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/revolt.html -
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Rome destroys Jewish Temple
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Alexander the Great dies
June 323 in Babylon, Iraq-- The exact cause of Alexander's death is unknown. Historians have debated the issue for centuries, attributing it to poison, malaria, typhoid fever or other maladies. What is agreed upon is that the Macedonian king died in early June 323 BC while suffering a high fever that had lasted ten days. His empire was carved up by his generals and soon disintegrated. http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/alexanderdeath.htm -
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Constantinople created
330-- The story of Constantinople as an independent entity begins during the reign of co-emperors Arcadius (c.AD 378-408) and Honorius (AD 385-423), under whom the two parts of the Roman empire finally went their own ways (Arcadius succeeding Theodosius in Constantinople in AD 395). http://www.roman-empire.net/constant/constant-index.html -
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Huns storm into Ostrogoth
375-- Ostrogoth was a huge nuisance to the Roman Empire because of its constant invasions into different parts of the Roman Empire. This stopped when the Huns invaded them in 374 AD. When they were invaded, around 200,000 of them went to seek protection from the Roman Empire. video: http://study.com/academy/lesson/germanic-tribes-in-the-roman-empire-kinship-law-customs.html info: ttp://www.ancient.eu/ostrogoth/ http://www.ancient.eu/ostrogoth/ -
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Carthiginian attack on Sicily
480-- King of Agrigentum brought in 300,000 men (Phoenicians, Libyans, Iberians, Ligurians, Helisykians, Sardinians, and Corsicans, under the command of Hamilcar the son of Hanno, king of the Carthaginians). https://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/480carthage.asp -
Pompey is elected
Pompey was elected as the leader of Rome in 70. Pompey, an experienced man by 70 BCE, was, however, illegible for the consulship since he was too young and had not held the positions of quaestor or praetor inline with the cursus honorum. Despite this, the rules were waived, and Pompey took the consulship for that year with Crassus. Primary source: http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/pompey.html http://www.ancient.eu/pompey/ -
Christianity legalized in Rome
313-- Constantine made Christianity legal after many years of it being illegal and practicing it was punishable by death as "entertainment". http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/ancient-rome/rome-and-christianity/
