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Did Nero really play the fiddle while Rome burned?
The Roman emperor Nero is said to have played his fiddle while the city burned and his people suffered. Could he really be that cruel, or is it all just a story?
Visigoths, or West Goths, a Germanic group that invaded the Roman Empire in the fourth century A.D..
Actium, Battle of, a naval engagement fought in 31 B.C. near the promontory of Actium, on the west coast of Greece.
Adrianople, Battle of, August 9, 378 A.D., a crushing defeat of the Roman imperial army under Emperor Valens by hordes of Visigoths led by Fritigern, aided by Ostrogoths and members of other barbarian tribes.
Cannae, Battle ofa battle fought in 216 B.C. in which Hannibal of Carthage decisively defeated the Romans.
Magnesia, Battle of 190 or 189 B.C., a battle fought in Asia Minor near what is now Manisa, Turkey.
Caledonia, the ancient Roman name for Scotland. The Caledonians (later called Picts), who lived in the Scottish Highlands, were a barbarian people who fiercely resisted Roman invasion.
Carthage an ancient city and the capital of a once powerful state. It was on the coast of north Africa near the modern city of Tunis.
Cimbri, a barbarian tribe, either Celtic or Germanic, that attacked the Roman Empire in the second century B.C.
Goths, a Germanic people who invaded the Roman Empire. During the second and third centuries A.D.
Numidia, the name in ancient times for a region of North Africa. The heart of Numidia lay in what is now eastern Algeria.
, or East Goths, an ancient Germanic people, one of the two branches of the Goths.
Palmyra, an ancient city in Syria. It was situated at an oasis in the Syrian Desert, 140 miles (225 km) northeast of Damascus.
Parthia, an ancient region of Persia, encompassing what is now northeastern Iran.
Sabines, an ancient people of Italy. They were related to the Latins, with whom some of them joined in the early settling of Rome.
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