Roman–Samnite Wars

Target entity: Roman–Samnite Wars
Context triple: [Social War, relatedConflict, Roman–Samnite Wars]

• A. Roman conquest of southern Italy
  The Roman conquest of southern Italy was a series of wars and campaigns in the 4th–3rd centuries BCE through which the Roman Republic subdued the Greek city-states and other peoples of the Italian south, paving the way for its dominance over the Mediterranean.
• B. Italian War
  The Italian War, also known as the Social War, was a conflict (91–88 BCE) between the Roman Republic and its Italian allies who sought Roman citizenship and equal political rights.
• C. war in Latium
  The war in Latium is the climactic conflict in Virgil’s Aeneid in which Aeneas battles the native Italian tribes, especially Turnus and the Rutulians, to secure a future homeland for the Trojans in Italy.
• D. Sulla’s First Civil War
  Sulla’s First Civil War was a Roman internal conflict (88–87 BCE) in which the general Lucius Cornelius Sulla marched on Rome and fought his political rivals, marking a key step in the Republic’s collapse into recurring civil wars.
• E. Punic Wars
  The Punic Wars were a series of three major conflicts between ancient Rome and Carthage that ultimately led to Roman dominance over the western Mediterranean.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Roman–Samnite Wars
Target entity description: The Roman–Samnite Wars were a series of conflicts in the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE in which the Roman Republic fought the Samnite tribes of central Italy, playing a crucial role in Rome’s rise to dominance on the Italian peninsula.

• A. Roman conquest of southern Italy
  The Roman conquest of southern Italy was a series of wars and campaigns in the 4th–3rd centuries BCE through which the Roman Republic subdued the Greek city-states and other peoples of the Italian south, paving the way for its dominance over the Mediterranean.
• B. Italian War
  The Italian War, also known as the Social War, was a conflict (91–88 BCE) between the Roman Republic and its Italian allies who sought Roman citizenship and equal political rights.
• C. war in Latium
  The war in Latium is the climactic conflict in Virgil’s Aeneid in which Aeneas battles the native Italian tribes, especially Turnus and the Rutulians, to secure a future homeland for the Trojans in Italy.
• D. Sulla’s First Civil War
  Sulla’s First Civil War was a Roman internal conflict (88–87 BCE) in which the general Lucius Cornelius Sulla marched on Rome and fought his political rivals, marking a key step in the Republic’s collapse into recurring civil wars.
• E. Punic Wars
  The Punic Wars were a series of three major conflicts between ancient Rome and Carthage that ultimately led to Roman dominance over the western Mediterranean.
• F. None of above. chosen