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Period: 264 BCE to 241 BCE
1st Punic War
due to the issue of control of the independent Sicilian city-state, of Messana, the first punic war was started by Carthage and Rome -
Period: 218 BCE to 201 BCE
2nd Punic War
Hannibal had a rivalry with Rome and Spain, so this whole war was basically children fighting out of jealousy. -
Period: 149 BCE to 146 BCE
3rd Punic War
this war was the efforts by Cato the Elder and other hawkish members of the Roman Senate to convince their colleagues that Carthage something that's uknown. -
Period: 60 BCE to 53 BCE
The 1st Triumvirate
The time when Pompey, Julius Caesar, and Marcus Licinius Crassus created an alliance and worked together, though it didn't last forever, they all wanted more power and left the others in the dust. -
44 BCE
Julius Caesar's Death
Julius was assassinated by his own friends of the senate, it was a heartbreaking time for him, his final words were "et tu, Brute?" which meant, "You too, Brutus? -
Period: 43 BCE to 32 BCE
The 2nd Triumvirate
Once again, another alliance, a political alliance formed after the Roman dictator Julius Caesar's assassination, comprising Caesar's adopted son Octavian (the future emperor Augustus) and the dictator's two most important supporters, Mark Antony and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus. Once again, this didn't last long, because each of them wanted to be the new ruler. -
31 BCE
Battle of Actium
a rivalry of Octavian and Antony following the assassination of Julius Caesar skyrocketed, so they wet to war, but it only lasted one day, that's a small war. -
Period: 31 BCE to 27 BCE
Octavian proclaimed Augustus Caesar
During this time, Octavian gained the name "Augustus Caesar" and was crowned ruler of his new kingdom. -
30 BCE
Romans gain the Eastern Mediterranean
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27 BCE
Roman Empire Founded
The founding of the Roman Empire, good times, though there were a lot of deaths, and suicides....maybe it wasn't so good.