Author: WyattPitts

The short war that broke out after the First Punic War was the Mercenary War. The Second Punic War began in 218 B.C. and lasted five years. This war is short, don’t you think?

Hannibal started fighting in Iberia by swearing an oath to never join forces with Rome. He did and went to battle with his father. His father drowned so his cousin became king but died so Hannibal became king. Hannibal declared war on an important city, Saguntum. His army had 38,000 men, 8,000 calvery, and 37 elephants. Italy has never seen elephants, so they were scared to death. Hannibal is remembered today as one of the greatest military leaders ever in history. If you were Hannibal, would you do the same as hi or better? Hope you liked this paper on Hanibal and the Second Punic War!

Rome sent ambassadors to mediate local quarrels because they wanted to maintain peace. The Senanes and Clusians could not be reconciled in 387 B.C. When the Gauls invaded Rome, they sacked the city. No one had ever sacked Rome before. A general named Marcus Camillus saved the day and the nickname second Romulus was given to him. Camillus got to serve as dictator in Rome five times. Rome thought about moving their capital to Veii.

The Romans fought the Samnites in the Samnite Wars. The Samnites started the First Samnite War because they wanted to expand their country. Rome started the second war and won. In the Third Samnite War, the Samnites and Etruscans teamed up but were defeated by Rome! The only part of Italy Rome did not conquer at this time was the Po Valley. Rome is strong, don’t you think?

I am going to write about citizens and foreigners in this paper, but first citizens. Citizens in Latin are called civium. If you were a citizen, you could get special privileges. Those privileges could be given legal protection, you could vote, and you could be in the army.

Foreigners in Latin are called Plulgrini. If you were a foreigner, you did not get special privileges. The Equites were the businessmen. The Senators were 100 members who made laws and kept orders, the Consul were men who were elected once a year to govern, the Praetous were eight men who were appointed as court judges, and Aldiles were four supervisors to a market trade, the Juaestars were twenty financial administrators, the Triune was similar to a counsel, and the Dictators protected the city. The Plebians went on strike five times to protest.

Ramulus was the first king of Rome. He killed his brother in a fight and stole women! Romulus was a warrior and a skilled man. He fought lots of wars and won most of them. When Romulus died, he did not have children, so the people decided a new king. His name was Numa Pompilius. He was a man of place. The reason the people chose him was because he was wise and peaceful. He said that when the temple doors were closed, they were at peace, but ewhen the doors were open, they were at war. I wonder what it would be like if I lived in Rome and everyone chose me as king. If you were there, what would you feel like if they chose you as king? I would feel happy or excited. I hope you like this paper. I also hope you like my next paper I am going to write.

   When Alexander was ten years old, he found a great war horse he wanted. The horse wasn’t tamed, so his father said no. Alexander found a way to tame it and bought the horse, and named it Bucephalas. His school teacher was Aristotle and his favorite author was Homer. Alexander carried one of his books wherever he went.

   Alexander became king at age 20 in 336 B.C. Alexander wanted to take over all of the states, so he started with Greece. Next, he moved to Asia. There was a knot no one could untie and everyone wanted to untie it because whoever untied it became the next king of all Asia. Alexander untied this knot by slicing it in two with his sword. Then, he conquered Egypt. Alexander never lost a battle.

   Alexander died in 323 B.C. at the age of 32. His death may have been of a disease or injuries from war. Alexander was very successful with conquering all of the cities known in History and making himself a name. The name was The Great.

   Athens and Sparta were the two city-states that started the wars. The starting of the war was when Sparta wouldn’t let Athens help them with anything. The first war broke out in 495 B.C. and lasted 15 years. Sparta forced the Athenians to return to the lands it conquered was by attacking their main city Attica. The peace agreement at the end of the war was called the Thirty Year Peace treaty. Athens was the first one to break this in many ways. One of those ways was commanding the walls of Potidaea to be torn down.

   The second Peloponnesian War was called the Archidamia War. It began in 432 B.C. Te first step Sparta did was marching into Attica. It was hard to have whole battles because Sparta preferred land battles, but Athens preferred naval battles. In 430 B.C. a plague struck Athens and killed 30,000 men! At the end of this war, there was not a peace treaty.

   In the third Peloponnesian War, the Persians and some other cities helped Sparta fight Athens. Athens was likely to survive because its foes didn’t want to destroy quickly. In 406 B.C. Athens won a naval victory. The Spartans took off to conquer the Hellespont because it was where Athens got their grain, and without grain, Athens couldn’t eat.

   One day King Ahasuerus decided to have a festival. The festival was 180 days. One of those days, Ahasuerus called for Vashti, the queen, to show off all her beauty. She refused to come and because everyone had to obey the King, she could not be queen anymore.

   The King wanted a new queen so his people looked. There was a Jew named Hadassah. In Persian, that name is Esther. Her cousin, Mordecai, brought her to the king’s palace. It took her about a year to get ready. The king chose Esther as the new queen because of her beauty.

   Haman was a descendant of King Agag, so he hated all Jews. He asked the king if he could put the king’s seal on a decree to kill a group of people. The king said yes because he didn’t know which group. Mordecai saw the decree, told Esther to tell the king to take back the decree, and Esther agreed. She prayed because it was wrong to go to the king without being invited, but she went and asked the king to take back the decree. The king said yes and wrote a new decree. He killed Haman and his family, and Mordecai took his position.