Antique Battles And Warfare Trivia Quiz

Answer: Sabines

The Volsci are the ones Coriolanus became mixed up with. The Etruscans were the main pre-Roman civilisation in Italy. Some of their towns are Perugia, Volterra etc. The Sabines were invited for a nice get-together, but Romulus used the opportunity to run off with what in popular terms has been called 'the Sabine Virgins'.

Answer: Pharsali

Pistoria 62 BC is the defeat of Catilina. Carrhae (53 BC) was where Crassus was defeated. At Pharsali, in 48 BC, Pompey is defeated. In 42 BC the murderers of Caesar were defeated at Philippi.

Answer: Vercingetorix was put on display in the streets of Rome and then executed

Caesar seems to have been rather selective in his demonstrations of generosity towards courageous opponents. Boadicea and Vercingetorix did not live in same century.

Answer: Punic Wars

The term Punic derives from Phoenician. The Phoenicians were the ones who had founded Carthage. The Peloponnesian Wars were of course the wars between Sparta and Athens. The taking of Sagunto by the Carthaginians had alerted the Romans, especially as Carthage had already taken Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica.

Answer: elephants

Onagers are wild asses. Onagers, zebras and Przewalski horses had not been domesticated yet. The great series of victories by Hannibal over the Romans had been at Cannae in 216 BC. His defeat at Zama sealed the fate of Carthage.

Answer: scatter salt over the ruins which they hoped would make it impossible to ever rebuild the town

The salt may have delayed the rebuilding, but where Carthage had been, a new Carthage appeared some time later. It was destroyed again by the Visigoths during the Barbarian invasions. Some doubt whether the strewing of salt is more than just legend. Especially as it was a very expensive enterprise. See www.tomorrowlands.org/misc/salt.html There are also suggestions they just symbolically salted one furrow of land. See www.microsoft.com/games/aoeexpansion/features_civilisation_crthaginian.htm

Answer: the Macedonians under Philip II of Macedonia

Whether the Macedonians were non-Greeks or northern Greeks remains a hot topic for historians.Anyway from the times of Philip of Macedonia on they played a major role in Greek history.
Alexander the Great succeeded his father and conquered large parts of the known world. After his marriage to Roxana, a Bactrian princess, he invaded India.

Answer: Thermopylae, Mid-August 480 BC

Marathon was where the Persian King Darius was defeated. The General in charge: Miltiades. Salamis was the only naval battle. Themistocles won a resounding victory. Plataea was another Greek victory. The General in charge was Pausanias, of Sparta. But Thermopylae was where the Persian King Xerxes defeated Leonidas and his Spartans.

Answer: Anthony and Cleopatra

Brutus and Cassius committed suicide too as they wanted to avoid falling into the hands of Caesar's supporters who had defeated them at Philippi in 42 BC. Pompey did not commit suicide, but was murdered by order of Queen Cleopatra's brother Ptolemy XIII, who hoped to appease Julius Caesar by doing so.

The suicide of the Emperor Nero was in 68 AD, a century later. He was the one who had arranged the suicide of a few others among whom were his wife and also his mom Agrippina .

Answer: the Germanic chieftain Odoacer

The Visigoths had already sacked Rome in 410. The Vandals had come to Spain in 409 BC , then captured the re-born town of Carthage, annexed Sardinia, Corsica and Sicily and sacked Rome in 455. Some years earlier, in 452, Pope Leo the Great, the Pope, had managed to negotiate a peaceful withdrawal of the Huns, who at that time were morally recovering from their defeat in the Catalaunian Plains, the year before.