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Study Guide for Zoch - Classical Roman Civilization | HIS 210, Study notes of World History

Zoch Ch 15 Material Type: Notes; Professor: Carlevale; Class: Classical Roman Civ (LAT); Subject: History; University: Berea College; Term: Spring 2011;

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Damien Russell
Zoch Ch15
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Study Guide: Zoch, Chapter 15
Items and questions on this guide are likely to appear on your next quiz, during which you may
use the notes you have taken on the following. The use of another student’s notes will be treated
as academic dishonesty.
Ch. 15 Rome Encounters the East
1. Where and when did Alexander the Great die? Who were the Antigonids?
The Seleucids? The Ptolemies? What were some other, minor powers which
were successor monarchies to Alexander’s empire?
323 in Babylon.
Ruling line of the Macedonia Hellenistic Kingdom
Seleucid Empire is another Hellenistic kingdom. Kings were
named Anitochus or Seleucus.
Egypt was ruled by the Ptolemies, who treated all Egypt as their
personal farm or factory.
Pergamum ruled by kings named Attalus or Eumenes; Island of
Rhodes it had powerful navy and commercial interests.
2. What instigated the First Macedonian War? What was its outcome?
(216) King Philip V made an alliance with Hannibal, and tried to
expand Illyricum by takeing over Dyrrhachium.
215 Rome sent an army to drive him away. Rome was busy with
Hannibal, the Gauls, Spain and Africa, the war was waged with
little dedication from Rome. 206 Rome abandoned the Aetolians,
who were conquered by Philip. Aetolians never forgave Rome.
3. With whom did Philip V plot to take on the rest of the Eastern
Mediterranean powers? To whom did Egypt, Rhodes and Pergamum appeal
for help when attacked? How did the Romans justify their declaration of
war? Where was the major battle that decided the Second Macedonian War?
What was the outcome of the war for Macedon and the Greek cities?
Philip and Anitochus the Great, king of the Seleucid Empire,
agreed to wage war on their common enemies and split the gains.
Rome but Rome didn’t have a good reason for war.
The fetials set impossible conditions for Philip to meet, if he
wanted to avoid war with Rome: He had to free his Greek subjects
and not wage war on the Greeks in Asia Minor.
Cynoscephalae (Dog’s Heads) in 197, under T. Quinctius
Flamininus.
Philip had to abandon all his holdings outside of Macedonia and
leave the Greeks free of Macedonian rule.
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Zoch Ch 1 Study Guide: Zoch, Chapter 15 Items and questions on this guide are likely to appear on your next quiz, during which you may use the notes you have taken on the following. The use of another student’s notes will be treated as academic dishonesty. Ch. 15 Rome Encounters the East

  1. Where and when did Alexander the Great die? Who were the Antigonids? The Seleucids? The Ptolemies? What were some other, minor powers which were successor monarchies to Alexander’s empire?  323 in Babylon.  Ruling line of the Macedonia Hellenistic Kingdom  Seleucid Empire is another Hellenistic kingdom. Kings were named Anitochus or Seleucus.  Egypt was ruled by the Ptolemies, who treated all Egypt as their personal farm or factory.  Pergamum ruled by kings named Attalus or Eumenes; Island of Rhodes it had powerful navy and commercial interests.
  2. What instigated the First Macedonian War? What was its outcome?  (216) King Philip V made an alliance with Hannibal, and tried to expand Illyricum by takeing over Dyrrhachium.  215 Rome sent an army to drive him away. Rome was busy with Hannibal, the Gauls, Spain and Africa, the war was waged with little dedication from Rome. 206 Rome abandoned the Aetolians, who were conquered by Philip. Aetolians never forgave Rome.
  3. With whom did Philip V plot to take on the rest of the Eastern Mediterranean powers? To whom did Egypt, Rhodes and Pergamum appeal for help when attacked? How did the Romans justify their declaration of war? Where was the major battle that decided the Second Macedonian War? What was the outcome of the war for Macedon and the Greek cities?  Philip and Anitochus the Great, king of the Seleucid Empire, agreed to wage war on their common enemies and split the gains.  Rome but Rome didn’t have a good reason for war.  The fetials set impossible conditions for Philip to meet, if he wanted to avoid war with Rome: He had to free his Greek subjects and not wage war on the Greeks in Asia Minor.  Cynoscephalae (Dog’s Heads) in 197, under T. Quinctius Flamininus.  Philip had to abandon all his holdings outside of Macedonia and leave the Greeks free of Macedonian rule.

Zoch Ch 2

  1. What are the dates for the war between Rome and Antiochus the Great of Syria? What was the outcome of that war?  192-  Anitochus was to stay out of Europe, withdraw from Asia, and hand over Hannibal. He did the first two.
  2. How did Perseus prepare to wage a war with Rome? What happened at the battle of Pydna in 168BC? What were the terms of the treaty Macedon signed with Rome at the end of the Third Macedonian War? What happened to King Perseus? Referring back to page 63, describe the “triumph” of a victorious Roman general.  Perseus father Philip was planning another war with Rome so he stocked up on money, supplies, and soldiers for 10 years but died too soon and Perseus inherited everything.  The Roman army destroyed Perseus’ army so bad most cities of Macedon surrendered to Paullus.  The treaty broke Macedon into four independent republics; Macedonians retained their basic freedom and self-government, but had to pay Rome one-half the taxes that they had paid to Philip and Perseus.  He was captured along with his wife and son to be a part of Paullus triumph.
  3. What was the result of the Fourth Macedonian War? When was the war with the Achaean League? What happened as a result of that war?  Rome conquered Macedon 148 and annexed it as a provinece, installing a governor.  146  L. Mummius, destroyed Corinth and dissolved the Achaean League.
  4. Why did the Carthaginians break their treaty with Rome? What was the response of the hardliners in the Roman senate to this, specifically M. Porcius Cato? What constituted Rome’s ultimatum to the city of Carthage? What happened to the survivors of the city? What happened to the city itself and the surrounding region?  Masinissa of Numidia, took advantage of Carthage’s inability to defend itself. He captured more than 70 towns. Carthage complained to Rome but Masinissa always got Rome to side with him. 150 Carthage finally declares wore and is beaten.  “Carthago delenda est” (Carthage must be destroyed).  So its continued existence would present a constant threat to Rome that would keep the Romans vigilant and strong.  P. Cornelius Scipio Aemiliaus stormed the city 146, sold the survivors into slavery.