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| Around 100 AD- reigning families died out and people brought back the idea of Republic, starting with Nerva in 96 and Marcus Aurelius who died in 180 AD |
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| The Roman Empire’s greatest structural weakness? |
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| The single greatest problem facing the Roman Empire after Augustus was the problem of succession--how to choose a successor when Emperor died. |
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| Hannibal’s strategy for defeating Rome |
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| He would march from Iberai (Italy) through Southern Gaul (France) and over the Alps, bring his war elephants with him and destorying everything in his path. This meant detaching Rome from its Italian allies. |
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| Collection of city-states that were ruled by Rome after its conquest of the western and eastern Mediterranean. |
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