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| 149 BC |
| | Rome picks a quarrel with Carthage to begin the Third Punic War | |
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| 139 BC |
| | A secret ballot is instituted for Roman citizens, who mark their vote on a tablet and place it in an urn | |
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| 90 BC |
| | A three-year war, known as the Social War, breaks out between Rome and her Italian allies | |
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| -88 BC |
| | The Roman general Sulla takes the unprecedented step of marching upon Rome with a Roman army, to restore his own faction to power | |
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| -82 BC |
| | Sulla takes Rome for the second time, after a battle at the Colline Gate, and then publishes his lethal 'proscriptions' | |
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| 64 BC |
| | The Roman annexation of Syria brings the Silk Road all the way to the Mediterranean | |
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| 46 BC |
| | Vercingetorix is a prize exhibit in Caesar's great triumph in Rome, but the Celtic chieftain is strangled once the procession is over | |
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| 42 BC |
| | After their victory at Philippi, Octavian returns to Rome and Mark Antony remains in the east to control the extremities of the empire | |
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| 37 BC |
| | Herod, appointed king of Judaea by the senate in Rome, establishes his rule over Palestine | |
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| 30 BC |
| | Octavian annexes Egypt as a Roman territory and takes back to Rome the vast treasures of the Egyptian pharaohs | |
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