How would you fare leading the Roman Army towards victory? Now is your chance to make decisions to grow your empire and ward off attacks. Download the card game “Build Your Roman Empire” now for all of this to be a possibility! Not only will you be able to learn a great deal about the Romans, you’ll have a great deal of fun while doing so. Get started by gluing together pages 1 and 2, 3 and 4, etc..
Through these cards you will be transported to places and times like the the Battle of Teutoburg Forest. Your army awaits you. They ask if you you let the Tribe leader Arminius join you, or let him create his own army. Although this might seem counter intuitive, your Roman army would be better off letting Arminius start his own army. This is because the entire battle was caused by this tribe leader leading the Roman army into the Teutoburg Forest and then backstabbing the Romans by switching to the side of his native people mid-battle. However, if you were in command and let Arminius create his own army, not only would you be aware of this army, you would also be prepare to fight them. You’ll also be leading through the Punic Wars, Battle of Cynoscephalae, Third Servile War, and Caesar’s Civil Wars.
Rules
This is a two player card game. Each person has twenty tokens, and the remainder are put in the middle. Players will switch off turns pulling cards from the deck. The player who pulls the card is Rome and other person is the opponent. The person who pulled the card will answer the question on front then flip it. Look under the option you chose and you either gain or lose tokens depending on what the answer says. Whoever runs out of tokens first loses. If you run out of cards, whoever has more tokens is the winner.
Works Cited
Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. “Battle of Cynoscephalae.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 4 Jan. 2016, www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Cynoscephalae.
Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. “Punic Wars.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 2 Apr. 2018, www.britannica.com/event/Punic-Wars#ref1247437.
Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. “Third Servile War.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 7 Dec. 2017, www.britannica.com/event/Gladiatorial-War.
“Gaius Julius Caesar: Civil War.” Josephus – Livius, www.livius.org/articles/person/caesar/caesar-06/.
Matthews, Rupert. “Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 3 Apr. 2018, www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-the-Teutoburg-Forest.