Global Military History Test Review: Macedon, Carthage, and Rome

Test Date:  Tuesday, November 19

Format:  Format:

15 multiple choice (2 points each) and 10 battle identification (2 points each):  50 points

Essay (choice of 2 questions):  50 points

Wars and conflicts, including (when applicable) causes, participants, major events, strategies, and outcomes:

• Alexander’s conquest of Persia
• The First Punic War
• The Second Punic War
• The Gallic Wars
• The Roman Civil Wars
• Roman Imperial Wars

Military systems, including troop/arm classifications, weapons, tactics, command, organization, social and political effects:

• The Carthaginian system
• The Manipular Legion
• The Marian Legion
• The Augustan Legion
• Barbarian/warrior societies

Battles and sieges, including (when applicable), parent war, approximate numbers of troops on each side, initial deployments, tactical movements, outcome of the battle, overall significance:

• The battle of Granicus
• The battle of Issus
• The battle of Gaugamela
• The battle of Hydaspes 
• The battle of Mylae
• The battle of Trebia
• The battle of Lake Trasimane
• The battle of Cannae
• The battle of Zama
• The battle of Chaeronea (Sulla)
• The battle of Pharsalus
• The battle of the Teutoberg Forest

People, including their role in their respective military system/war; their military influence upon their own time; their significance to military history:

• Philip of Macedon
• Alexander the Great
• Hannibal
• Quintus Fabius
• Scipio Africanus
• Marius
• Julius Caesar
• Vercengetorix 
• Augustus Caesar