History Midterm

Founder of the Republic of Rome

• Pompey

• Julias Caesar

• Lucious Brutus

• Antony

Maccabean Revolt

Groups:

(a) True

,

(b) False

• Loss of Jewish cultural identity

• Decline of Jewish religious freedom

• Against Hellenistic influence on Jewish life

• Hasmonean- Roman Alliance

• Jewish revolt led by Judas Maccabeus

• Suppression of non-Hellenistic traditions

• Persecution of traditional Jewish practices

• Diminishing significance of Jewish traditions

• Redirection of the Temple --> Hanukkah

• Assimilation into Hellenistic culture

Macedonian War

• War in Gaul

• Corinth was besieged

• Caesar fought Pompey

• Antony fought Octavius

Punic Wars

• 3 conflicts on land and sea across the Mediterranean between Rome and Carthage

• Fought by Caesar in Gaul

• Part of the Roman Civil War

• Started the Macedonian War

Match the following

• Judas Maccabeus

• Jewish priest that led revolt against Antiochus

• Lucius Brutus

• Founder of the Roman Republic

• Caesar

• Roman who defeats Hannibal at the Battle of Zara

• Vercingetorix

• Defeated political rival, Pompey in Civil War

• Scipio Africanus

• Gallic king who fought and surrendered to Caesar

​ (a)   attacks ​ (b)   forces in ​ (c)   which forces a surrender without a battle at ​ (d)   .

• Caesar
• Pompey
• Illerda
• Spain

Battle of Dyrrachium

Groups:

(a) True

,

(b) False

• Return ships caught and sunk & Caesar is stranded

• Caesar blockades Pompey

• Pompey defeats Caesar at Pharsalus

• Caesar blockades Alexandria

• Pompey forces Caesar to withdraw

• Antony brings the rest of the army to Caesar

• Pompey crosses the Rubicon

• Caesar forces Pompey to withdraw

Battle of Pharsalus (48 BC)

• Caesar beats Pompey despite Pompey's larger numbers and cavalry.

• Caesar blockades Pompey

• part of the Maccabean war

• Took place in Italy

Match the following

• Zela

• Caesar beats Pompey and he flees to Egypt and is executed

• Zama

• Caesar secures the empire - vein, vidi, vici

• Alesia

• Roman Scipio Africanus defeats Hannibal in Punic War

• Dyrrachium

• Caesar blockades Pompey but is forced to withdraw

• Pharsalus

• Vercingetorix is trapped and besieged and forced to surrender to Caesar during the Gallic Wars

Colonizes Spain to compensate for the loss of Sicily during the Punic Wars

• Pompey

• Octavian

• Caesar

• Hamilcar Barca