Events of the Gallic War

The siege of Alesia

• Was the nail in the coffin for the Gauls

• Saw Roman citizens slaughtered

• Saw a serious defeat for the Romans

• Gave Caesar an excuse to set foot in Gaul

The events in Cenabum

• Was the nail in the coffin for the Gauls

• Saw Roman citizens slaughtered

• Drove a couple of tribes across the Rhine

• Make no sense to the Swiss (“It’s so beautiful here!!”)

The siege of Gergovia

• Saw a serious defeat for the Romans

• Saw Roman citizens slaughtered

• Gave Caesar an excuse to set foot in Gaul

• Is sometimes looked at like a genocide

The campaign against the Helvetians

• Gave Caesar an excuse to set foot in Gaul

• Is sometimes looked at like a genocide

• Was the nail in the coffin for the Gauls

• Saw Roman citizens slaughtered

The Helvetians’ desire to move

• Makes no sense to the Swiss (“It’s so beautiful here!!”)

• Drove a couple of tribes across the Rhine

• Made them first crossed the Arare River

• Was the nail in the coffin for the Gauls

The massacre of the Usipetes

• Is sometimes looked at like a genocide

• Saw Roman citizens slaughtered

• Saw a serious defeat for the Romans

• Drove a couple of tribes across the Rhine

The Suebi

• Crossed the Arare River

• Drove a couple of tribes across the Rhine

• Were the nail in the coffin for the Gauls

• Gave Caesar an excuse to set foot in Gaul

A quarter of the Helvetians got slaughtered before they

• Crossed the Arare River

• Saw Roman citizens slaughtered

• Saw a serious defeat for the Romans

• Was the nail in the coffin for the Gauls

The __________________ keep flipflopping throughout the war

• Haeduans

• Sequanians

• Belgians

• Bellovaci

The ___________ are the fiercest of the the Belgians

• Nervii

• Remi

• Suessiones

• Bellovaci