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Title: Roman history in brief
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Forfar, Chas
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Publisher: Toronto, Ont. : Educational Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: The University of Western Ontario, Western Archives
Digitizing Sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries

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by Flamini.us of the indepen-dence of Greece, 196. A friendly and inde-pendent Greece would be at once a check onMacedon, a barrier against aggression fromthe East, and a promising field for Romancommerce. (r) Terms of Peace, 196 : (i) Philip to pay 1000 talents (war indemnity) toRome. (2) To wage no war, make no alliances withoutRomes consent. (3) To give up all his possessions in Greece,Thrace, Aegean Is., Asia Minor. 3. Third War, 168 : (a) Causes: Philips preparations to attack Rome.Intrigues of his son and successor, Perseus, toprovoke hostility between Greeks and Romans,Restlessness and discontent in Greece,(^j The War: (i) First battle of Pydna. 168 : Victory of theRomans under Aemilius Paulus. Fxtinctionof the Macedonian monarchy.(2) Attempt of Andriscus, the Pretender, to reviveit. His defeat in the second battle of Pydna,i48.(r) Results: (i) Macedonia a Roman province, 148. Conquestof Greece, 14S. .\. Conquest of Greece, 148 : (a) Causes : Romes accusation against Greece of
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ROMAN WORLD IN 133 B C. romp:s conquest of the east. 29 sympathy and collusion with Macedonia. Re-moval of suspected Greeks, as hostages, to Italy.Rise of the Acliaeans against Rome. (b) Romes destruction of Corinth, Thebes, Chalcis.The end of Grecian freedom. Greece now aRoman province called Achaia. Exaction oftribute by Rome. Introduction of the provincialsystem of disarmament, isolation, and taxation. (.) Direct influence of Greek learning and civiliza-tion : Romes admiration for, and adoption of, theGreek language, literature, art, philosophy, cus-toms. II Syrian War, 192-189 :- r. Causes: (a) Plans of Antiochus III of Syria to conquer Eurojte. (b) His seizure of Egypts possessions in A. Minor andThrace. (c) His invasion of A. Minor and Greece. Romesaid to Greece. 2. The War : (a) Battle of Thermopylae, 191 : Victory of theRomans under Glabrio. Flight of Antiochus to Ephesus. (b) Lucius Scipio, brother of the conqueror of Hanni-bal, in Asia Minor. Battle of Jlagnesia (Lydia)190 .

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