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	Third Servile War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Third Servile War, also called the Gladiator War and "The War of Spartacus" by Plutarch, was the last of a series of unrelated and unsuccessful slave rebellions against Rome, known collectively as the Servile Wars.
		Perhaps because the Third Servile War is often seen as individuals fighting against a larger and more powerful "State" for their freedom, the events of the war seem to have caught the imagination of writers.
		The events of the war have inspired a number of works, usually told sympathetically from the perspective of Spartacus and his army of escaped slaves.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Third_Servile_War (2977 words)

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		The first praetor was known as praetor urbanus and the second known as praetor peregrinus.
		He is the first privatus to be given a proconsular imperium, and the first privatus to command an army.
		195 BC - (Spanish Wars) The Spanish insurrections in the Roman province by the Turdetani with Celtiberian mercenaries are defeated by a consular army under one of the consuls M. Porcius Cato.
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	Roman Servile Wars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Servile Wars were a series of slave revolts that plagued the late Roman Republic.
		First Servile War: 135 BC-132 BC on Sicily, led by Eunus, a former slave claiming be a prophet, and Cleon (Cilician).
		Third Servile War: 73 BC-71 BC in Italy, led by Spartacus
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Servile_Wars (149 words)

	Roman Civil Wars - Military History Wiki
		First Servile War (135 BC - 132 BC), between Rome and a slave insurrection on Sicily - Roman victory
		Third Servile War (73 BC - 71 BC), between Rome and a slave insurrection in Italy led by Spartacus - Roman victory
		Fulvia's civil war (41/40 BC), between the forces of Lucius Antonius and Fulvia Antonia (the younger brother and wife of Marc Antony) and Octavian's Triumvirate army - Triumvirate victory
	www.militaryhistorywiki.org /index.php?title=Roman_Civil_Wars (424 words)

	149-146. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		A pretended son of Perseus, Andriscus, provoked the war but was defeated by Q. Caecilius Metellus.
		The First Servile War broke out when the ill-treated slaves of the large Sicilian estates revolted under the Syrian Eunus, who called himself King Antiochus.
		Rome determined to administer provinces by maintaining an army in the conquered territory and placing it under the command of a magistrate with imperium (a consul or praetor), who also exercised a supervisory judicial function.
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	Empire and Politics by Violence, to 79 BCE)
		The Romans had emerged from the Punic wars with the widespread understanding that ultimate authority over the military lay with the Senate, that it was the Senate's job to know, advise and guide, and the Senate's job to decide the question of war or peace and other foreign policy matters.
		A civil war had begun, and in the first year of the war, Rome moved to prevent more cities from joining the rebellion, and they did so by extending citizenship to their inhabitants, pretending they were doing so as a reward for their loyalty.
		In his first year of retirement he hunted and fished, he enjoyed the company of friends, he enjoyed seeing comedy plays he had written performed on the stage, and he studied philosophy, and like some other bright men he became a believer in Epicureanism.
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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Servile Wars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Servile Wars SERVILE WARS [Servile Wars] name given in Roman history to three slave uprisings.
		The first of the Servile Wars was fought in Sicily from 134 to 132 BC (or from 135 to 133 BC); the
		The "hero" of Dayton: Slobodan Milosevic and the politics of war and peace.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/11717.html (615 words)

	History: Three Roman Slave Rebellions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The First Servile War of 135—132 BC was an unsuccessful slave uprising against the Romans on the island of Sicily.
		The Second Servile War was an unsuccessful slave uprising against the Romans on the island of Sicily.
		The Third Servile War was an unsuccessful slave uprising against the Romans in Italy, under command of the famous Spartacus.
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	Imperial Rome
		The Social or Marsic War (as it is often called on account of the prominent part taken in the insurrection by the warlike Marsians) was a struggle that arose from the demands of the Italian allies for the privileges of Roman citizenship.
		At first the rule of the Roman governors in the provinces, though severe, was honest and prudent.
		During the first years of his reign he used his practically unrestrained authority with moderation, being seemingly desirous of promoting the best interests of all classes in his vast empire; and even to the last his government of the provinces was just and beneficent.
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	Roman Empire - Answerbag.com
		First Servile War, 135 BC - 132 BC: an unsuccessful slave uprising on the island of Sicily.
		The Punic Wars were a series of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage which was on the southern coast of the Mediterranean.
		The First Punic War was 264 BC - 241 BC and was won by Rome....
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		The servile war in Sicily (_circa_ 140-131 B.C.).
		Of some phases of the war between the old spirit and the new we shall find occasion to speak; but the culminating point attained by the blend of Greek with Roman elements is the only one which is clearly visible to modern eyes.
		First there were the contractors for the creation, maintenance and repair of the public works possessed or projected by the State, such as roads, aqueducts, bridges, temples and other public buildings.
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	A General History For Colleges And High Schools By P.V.N. Myers, A.M- part-3 Chapter 19 from Nalanda Digital Library at ...
		THE SERVILE WAR IN SICILY (134-132 B.C.).--With the opening of this period we find a terrible struggle going on in Sicily between masters and slaves --or what is known as "The First Servile War." The condition of affairs in that island was the legitimate result of the Roman system of slavery.
		The Social, or Marsic War (as it is often called on account of the prominent part taken in the insurrection by the warlike Marsians) was a struggle that arose from the demands of the Italian allies for the privileges of Roman citizenship, from which they were wholly excluded.
		Sulla, at the head of the legions he commanded, marched upon Rome, entered the gates, and "for the first time in the annals of the city a Roman army encamped within the walls." The party of Marius was defeated, and he and ten of his companions were proscribed.
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		The first Servile War of the Romans occurred in Sicily.
		In the war with Hannibal the Romans showed their fearlessness by sending troops to Spain while the Carthaginian with his army was lying under their walls; but they called troops and generals from Spain to their assistance against the Thracian gladiator.
		In the bloody drama of the War of Spartacus hers is the sole relieving figure, and we would fain know more of her, for it could have been no ordinary woman who was loved by such a man. The passion of the Romans for gladiatorial combats is well known.
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	Ancient Roman History Timeline III
		This awful occurrence, the first of the kind that took place in the public assembly, was never long without a new parallel thereafter.
		However, the nobility so far forced the people to their pleasure and disappointed Caius's hope, that he was not returned the first, as was expected, but the fourth tribune.
		The first servile war: the slave revolt of Eunus
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	Roman timeline from 509BC to 50BC
		Rome's success in its first major wars, first against the town of Fidenae, followed by its defeat of the Etruscan city of Veii in 406-396BC, were seen by some historians as laying the foundation for the militaristic underpinnings of Roman society.
		The first servile war was the slave revolt of Eunous, a slave of Syrian origin from Apamea.
		Two monographs were preserved: the Jugurthine War, which recounted the incompetence and venality of the senatorial generals sent to North Africa to campaign against the renegade Jugurtha in the period 112-107BC:, and the Catilinarian War, which accepted, for the most part, Cicero's tendentious account of Catiline's alleged attempt to overthrow the government in 63.
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	[EUNUS]
		When Eunus and his men learned that Damophilus and his wife were in the garden that lay near the city, they sent some of their band and dragged them off, both the man and his wife, fettered and with hands bound behind their backs, subjecting them to many outrages along the way....
		This miracle first of all collected 2,000 men from those whom he encountered, but presently, when the prisons had been broken open by force of arms, he formed an army of more than 60,000 men.
		The penalty could not be inflicted upon their leader, although he fell alive into their hands; for, while the crowd was quarreling about his apprehension, the prey was torn to pieces in the hands of the disputants.
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	ROMAN HISTORY TIMELINE
		Tiberius, the first senator to advocate land reform, was assassinated in 133BC by land-owners.
		The "Social War" (revolt by Roman allies in Italy)
		Julius Caesar defeated Pompey and became the first dictator of Rome
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	The Crisis of the modern World, the New World Order and Kali Yuga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		When, in 104 B.C. the urban masses of Rome for the first time lawlessly and tumultuously invested a private person, Marius, with Imperium, the deeper importance of the drama then enacted is comparable with that of assumption of the mythic Emperor-title by the ruler of Ch'in in 288 B.C..
		The place of the permanent armies as we know them will gradually be taken by professional forces of volunteer war-keen soldiers; and from millions we shall revert to hundreds of thousands.
		In these wars of theirs for the heritage of the whole world, continents will be staked---India, China, South Africa, Russia, Islam called out, new technics and tactics played and counter-played....
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	What were the "Servile Wars"? - Answerbag.com
		Second Servile War, 104 BC - 103 BC: another slave revolt in Sicily.
		In 104 BC the senate decreed that slaves taken from those states which were now allies of Rome, were to be declared free.
		Third Servile War, 73 BC - 71 BC: a slave revolt in Italy, led by the gladiator Sparticus.
	www.answerbag.com /q_view.php/14883 (336 words)

	World Timeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Roman armies achieve another victory--this time over the Syrians--at the Battle of Magnesia in 190 B.C. Antiochus III of Syria is forced to surrender his holdings in Europe and Asia as far as the Taurus Mountains.
		In 149 B.C., the third Punic War begins when a Roman army invades the North African city of Carthage.
		Commercial bakers--Rome's first professional cooks--appear around 170 B.C. (although the majority of families continue to bake their own bread).
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	12,000 YEARS OF ELLIOTT WAVES - Part 4
		A mildly declining archaeological period prior to the reign of Gilgamesh that is associated with the Flood legend.
		The first royal mint was established in Lydia c.700BC producing the first crude coins made of electrum, a natural alloy of gold and silver.
		Therefore, we judge the present X-wave (1000-1999) as the first X-wave of the first Y-wave of Z3.
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	Fall of the Roman Republic
		According to Pliny the Elder, the As was reduced to 2 ounces during the First Punic War, and reduced to 1 ounce (1/12 pound) in the Second Punic War.
		During the Social War, businesses and farms in war-torn regions did not produce income, and the owners of these enterprises could not pay their creditors.
		“During the Social War the state confessed to complete bankruptcy, and in the Sullan Wars that followed Sulla deliberately adopted the Oriental theory of autocracy, compelled the state to give him absolute power over life and property, and confiscated sacred, public, and private property whenever he was in need.
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	Ancient Rome III - ALRItkwRom101EarlyRepublic.html
		437-426 BC The Roman Fidenaen war: A seminal event, Rome's success in its first major wars, first against the town of Fidenae, followed by its defeat of the Etruscan city of Veii in 406-396 BC, are seen by some historians as laying the foundation for the militaristic underpinnings of Roman society.
		The rank of dictator in this instance is constitutional and was subject to legal restrictions, and is not to be confused with the later dictatorships of Sulla, Julius Caesar, or the contemporary use of the term.
		The first was, that whoever was turned out of any public office by the people, should be thereby rendered incapable of bearing any office afterwards; the second, that if any magistrate condemn a Roman to be banished without a legal trial, the people be authorized to take cognizance thereof.
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	ALRItkwRom101HighLowlights.html
		The king set the term of service for the holy virgins at thirty years; in the first decade they learn their duties, in the middle decade they do what they have learned, and in the third they teach others.
		"Sextus Pompeius and Sextus Apuleius, the consuls, were the first to swear allegiance to Tiberius Caesar, and in their presence the oath was taken by Seius Strabo and Caius Turranius, respectively the commander of the praetorian cohorts and the superintendent of the corn supplies.
		The whole city rightly loved her and worshipped her in a remarkable way, but the rulers of the city from the first envied her, something that often happened at Athens too.
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	Ancient Rome History Facts & Timeline
		Dates, Emperors, Leaders and Wars are all mentioned in the Ancient Rome History Timeline & Facts.
		45BC Julius Caesar defeats Pompey and became the first dictator of Rome
		Facts and info about the Kings and Wars all detailed in the Ancient Rome History Timeline & Facts.
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