Identifier: greatestnations03elli (find matches)
Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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THE GEESE SAVE ROME Rome—Chronology 489 389—Rome gradually rebuilt amid great distress and wars with neighboringstates. 367—Passage of the Licinian laws. 360—The Gauls defeated inItaly. 365-342—War with the Etruscans, ended by a truce; war with theLatins; league renewed. 343-340—First Samnite war, indecisive. 341—■Mutiny in the army in Campania and rise of the commons in Rome;peace restored by concessions and the general abolition of debts caused bythe Gaulish invasion. 339—-The Publilian law passed, equalizing Plebeianswith the Patricians in political rights. 326 et seq.—The second Samnitewar. 311—War with Etruria. 309-—-Victories of O. Fabius Maximus; theEtrurians and Umbrians submitted. 312-308—Appius Claudius Calcus, cen-sor, favored the lower classes; with the public money made a road from Rometo Capua, termed the Appian Way, and erected the first aqueduct. 304-302—Conquest of the yEquians, Marsians, etc. 300—Third Samnite war.294-290—The Samnites

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