Chapter 4 Multiple Choice Self-Quiz

. Hannibal's crushing victory over the Romans at the Battle of ______ was the worst defeat the Romans had ever suffered.

. Between the First and Second Punic Wars, the Romans were largely occupied with wars against the ______ and the ______.

. The highest military honor at Rome was an event know as the ______.

. When the Romans inherited the kingdom of Pergamum from King Attalus III they incorporated it into their territory as a new province named ______.

. The Numantines in Spain burned their city and committed mass suicide after their city was besieged by ______, who was also the victorious Roman general in the Third Punic War.

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The Roman defeat at the Battle of the Caudine Forks in the ______ was compounded by the humiliation of "passing under the yokes,"€ which symbolically reduced the captive Romans to animals.

. Roman military policy after the Gallic sack of Rome in 390 BCE can best be characterized as one of ______.

. Publius Cornelius Scipio's defeat of Hannibal at the Battle of Zama Regia earned him what nickname?

. The Campanian mercenaries known as the ______, despite having no real connection to Rome, were the catalyst for the First Punic War.

. Which of the following was the primary Carthaginian commander during the First Punic War?

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