| A | B |
|---|
| Lucius Junius Brutus | one of first two consuls |
| Collatinus | one of first consul/husband of Lucretia |
| Lucretia | raped by Superbus' son and committed suicide |
| Lars Porsenna | king of Etruscans who fought Romans |
| Clusium | capital of Etruria |
| Horatius Cocles | fought Etruscans at Pons Sublicius |
| Gaius Mucius Scaevola | tried to kill Porsenna, burnt off right hand |
| Cloelia | held by Porsenna, swam the Tiber to get back |
| Coriolanus | defeats the Corioli and is exiled from Rome |
| Corioli | a Volscian city |
| Veturia | mother of Coriolanus |
| Volumnia | wife of Coriolanus |
| Cincinnatus | dictator 16 days in 485 BC |
| 12 Tables | laws by the decemviri in 451-450 BC |
| Camillus | defeated Veii then exiled |
| pater patriae | Camillus after ridding Rome of Gauls |
| Brennus | Gallic chief defeated at Allia River in 390 BC |
| Caudine Forks | Roman defeat in 2nd Samnite War in 321 BC |
| Lautulae | Roman defeat in 2nd Samnite War in 315 BC |
| Appius Claudius Caecus | censor who built the Via Appia and Aqua Appia in 312 BC |
| Decius Mus | died in Battle of Sentinum in 295 BC |
| Pyrrhus | king of Epirus in Greece |
| Heraclea | attacked by Pyrrhus in 280 BC |
| Asculum | attacked by Pyrrhus in 279 BC |
| Beneventum | attacked by Pyrrhus in 275 BC |
| Fabricius | Pyrrhus unsuccessfully tried to bribe |
| King Attalus III | gave Pergamum to Rome in 133 BC |
| Tiberius Gracchus | tribune in 133 BC |
| Gaius Gracchus | tribune in 121 BC |
| Cornelia | mother of the Gracchi |
| Gracchi brothers | agrarian reform, grandsons of Scipio Africanus |
| Marius | consul 7 times |
| Aque Sextiae | Marius defeated Teutones in 102 |
| Vercellae | Marius defeated Cimbri in 101 |
| Optimates | Sulla supported during civil war |
| Populares | Marius supported during the civil war |
