Could Spartacus have won his war against Rome? He certainly came very close to winning. If you were an advisor to Spartacus, how might you have advised him to win ultimate victory for the slaves, or at the very least, get them out of Italy and the clutches of the Romans. What plan might you come up with to save the slave army from destruction? Was this even possible given the might and determination of Rome? BE SPECIFIC
: While Greece faded into the twilight of its glory, a city on the banks of the Tiber River on the Italian peninsula began its ascendancy. That city was Rome, and although it adopted much of the religion, philosophy and culture of Greece, it carved out its own Latin identity which would in a matter of centuries dominate the entire Mediterranean world and beyond. The majority of Roman citizens were free farmers or the so-called Plebian class, who would ultimately clash with the wealthy, powerful landowners, or Patricians for dominance of the Roman political system. Rome would also compete with its rivals for control of the Mediterranean, notably the Carthaginians.
A great stain on the Roman system was the huge number of people enslaved by the Romans, and the institution of slavery in the ancient world in general. Thousands of captive peoples were put in chains and toiled under the lash of the whip in Roman fields, farms, mines and manor houses. Others fought as gladiators for the amusement of the Roman masses.
But in 71 B.C., the oppressed slaves had had enough; they rallied behind the courageous leadership of a brave man, the Thracian gladiator, Spartacus. Spartacus and his fellow gladiators, who were brutalized and trained to kill each other in the arenas of the Roman world, took over the gladiator school where they were imprisoned, and killed their overseers. They then spread out throughout Italy freeing slaves on farms, towns, villages and cities. Spartacus trained these thousands of freed people, men, women and children, into a powerful fighting force, as they defeated Roman legions sent to destroy them. Spartacus’s plan was to march north out of Italy and escape the clutches of Rome, but he headed back into Italy to rescue a slave force who ignored his advice to get out in favor of looting Roman supply stores. Tragically, eventually the Roman armies led by Julius Caesar, Pompey and Crassus, defeated the slave army and killed Spartacus in battle. Thousands of survivors were crucified along the Apian Way in Rome as punishment.
Could Spartacus have won his war against Rome? He certainly came very close to winning. If you were an advisor to Spartacus, how might you have advised him to win ultimate victory for the slaves, or at the very least, get them out of Italy and the clutches of the Romans. What plan might you come up with to save the slave army from destruction? Was this even possible given the might and determination of Rome? BE SPECIFIC
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