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" The Collapse of Rome : "
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850525
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Sampson, Gareth C.
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The Collapse of Rome : : Marius, Sulla and the First Civil War.
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Havertown :: Pen and Sword,, 2013.
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1 online resource (313 pages)
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1473826853
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: 1473831024
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: 9781473826854
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: 9781473831025
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Acknowledgements; List of Plates; Maps and Diagrams; Introduction -- When is a Civil War not a Civil War?; Timeline; Notes on Roman Names; Chapter 1 The Road to Civil War; Chapter 2 War in Italy (91-87 bc); Chapter 3 Coups and Counter-coups in Rome (88 bc); Chapter 4 The Consuls at War (87 bc); Chapter 5 Peace in Italy -- a World at War (86-84 bc); Chapter 6 The War for Italy (83-82 bc); Chapter 7 Peace in Italy; a World at War II (82-79 bc); Chapter 8 The Wars in Italy and Spain (78-77 bc); Chapter 9 The War in Spain (77-74 bc); Chapter 10 War on Two Fronts: Spain and Asia (74-71 bc).
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Chapter 11 The Rise of the New Republic (71-70 bc)Appendix I On the Offensive -- Roman Expansion in the 70s bc; Appendix II The New Republic's First Challenge -- The AttemptedCoups of 65 and 63 bc; Appendix III Two Decades of Bloodshed -- Roman SenatorialCausalities in the First Civil War; Notes and References; Bibliography; Index.
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By the early first century BC, the Roman Republic had already carved itself a massive empire and was easily the most powerful state in the Mediterranean. Roman armies had marched victoriously over enemies far and wide, but the Roman heartland was soon to feel the tramp of armies on campaign as the Republic was convulsed by civil war and rival warlords vied for supremacy, sounding the first death knell of the Republican system. At the centre of the conflict was the rivalry between Marius, victor of the Jugurthine and Northern wars, and his former subordinate, Sulla. But, as Gareth Sampson point.
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Marius, Gaius,approximately 157 B.C.-86 B.C.
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Sulla, Lucius Cornelius.
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Marius, Gaius,approximately 157 B.C.-86 B.C.
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Sulla, Lucius Cornelius.
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ANTIQUES COLLECTIBLES / Military.
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Rome, History, Social War, 90-88 B.C.
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Rome, History, Military, 265-30 B.C.
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Rome (Empire)
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937.05
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DG89
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