Spartacus (Spartacus)
Spartacus was a gladiator who led enslaved people in a rising in Italy from 73 to 71 BCE. The rising grew into a large force. Marcus Crassus defeated it. The story is remembered as a rising of people who had been enslaved.
Grade 8. History.
How it connects
The date sits late in the Republic, after the Gracchi and before Cicero was consul.
Latin words that go with this card: servus, bellum.