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The Revolt Against King Tarquin
The Early Roman RepublicLead by Lucius Iunius Brutus, they rose in revolt against the king. The rebellion against Tarquinius failed to achieve final independence for Rome, but it should be the birth of the Roman republic. It was after this revolt, that the senate handed power to two consuls. This happened in 510 BC. -
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Falling of Rome
ConstantiopleAs Rome fell in AD 410 the burden of sustaining roman civilization alas fell solely to the eastern capital.
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Suicide of Socrates
The Sucide of SocratesOn a day in 399 BC the philosopher Socrates stood before a jury of 500 of his fellow Athenians accused of "refusing to recognize the gods recognized by the state" and of "corrupting the youth." If found guilty; his penalty could be death. -
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Alexander Defeats the Persians
Alexander Defeats the PersiansOf Alexander's men about 100 were killed and more than 1000 of his horses; either from wounds or exhausted in the pursuit. . . Of the Barbarians there are said to have been 300,000 slain, and far more taken prisoners than were killed." This happened in 331 AD. -
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Death of Alexander the Great
<ahref='http://http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/alexanderdeath.htm' >The Death of Alexander the Great</a>It was May of 323 BC and Alexander the Great was in Baghdad. This information comes from the Royal Diaries, where we also learn that the soldiers wanted to see him, some hoping to see him before he died and others because there was a rumor that he was already dead, and they guessed that his death was being kept back by his personal guard. -
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Polybius
Ancient History SourcebookPolybius was born in Arcadia, in 204 B. C. Polybius had the good fortune, during seventeen years exile, to be allowed to live with the Scipios. -
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Destruction of Carthage and Corinth
<ahref='http://http://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/ancient/polybius6.asp' >Ancient History Sourcebook</a>He was present at the destructions of Carthage and Corinth, in 146 B. C., and did more than anyone else to get the Greeks to accept the inevitable Roman rule. Polybius is the most reliable, but not the most brilliant, of ancient historians. -
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Tiberius Gracchus
PlutarchHe died 133 B.C.E. Piso was tried for murder and ordered to commit suicide, but the suspicion remained that he had been acting for the emperor. -
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Cnaeus Julius Agricola
Ancient History Sourcebook Cnaeus Julius Agricola was born at the ancient and famous colony of Forum Julii. Each of his grandfathers was an Imperial procurator, that is, of the highest equestrian rank. This happened in 98 AD. -
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The Burning or Rome
The Burning of RomeDuring the night of July 18, 64 AD, fire broke out in the merchant area of the city of Rome. Fanned by summer winds, the flames quickly spread through the dry, wooden structures of the Imperial City. Soon the fire took on a life of its own consuming all in its path for six days and seven nights. -
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Octavius
The Early Emperors Octavius was the son of Gaius Octavius and Aita, niece of Julius Caesar, who adopted him as his heir. This happened in 98 AD. -
The Third Punic War
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Death of a Martyr
Death of a MarytrVibia Perpetua was a young woman of noble birth. This is happened in 203 AD. She was twenty-two, a wife, a mother of a young son and a Christian. In the city of Carthage in North Africa on March 7 of the year 203 she was put to death for her religious convictions. Her story comes to us from three eyewitness accounts written shortly after her death.
