War & Conflict		          		ROME					Mr. Thorsen

Early Republic
-Legend of Romulus & Remus
	-3 promises from Mars
	-reason for the legend
-Gallic Invasion 395 BC
	-effect upon Roman military
-3 key factors in Roman conquest success
	1) never give up
	2) assimilate & improve new technology, tactics
	 	-pilum, shield, formations, testudo
	    -readings on Roman warfare
	3) conquering policy
		-land, money, citizenship
1st Punic War
-leading cause of friction between Carthage & Rome
-Carthaginian strengths
-Roman strengths
-Sons of Mars and Sicily
-stalemate & Hamilcar Barca
	-Rome breaks the deadlock 
		-corvus/ Raven
-Battle of Aegate Islands
-Roman terms for peace
	-war indemnity/ reparations
	-spheres of influence
	-Roman control of W. Mediterranean

2nd Punic War
-Sardinia & Corsica
-Hannibal
	-Numidian cavalry 
-Saguntum and the war erupts
-Roman strategy
-Carthaginian strategy
	-Battle of Trebia River
	-Battle of Lake Trasimene
-Roman dictator Fabian the Delayer’s plan
	-Battle of Cannae
		-Consuls Varro & Paulus
		-double envelopment
		-70-80,000 Roman dead
-Hannibal’s new strategy
	-Hasdrabul to the rescue or not
-Roman new strategy
	-Publius Cornelius Scipio
-Battle of Zama
	-caltrops & civil war

3rd Punic War
-It’s not over yet?
-“Carthago Delundum Est!”
-Scipio Africanus Minor

Gauis Marius
-his reforms 
	-readings
 -gydons