This chapter describes the Romans first wars with non-Italian enemies:

Prior Events: Persians

1. Cyrus II (Cyrus the Great, 559 - 530 BC)
   

2. Topic: Assyrians, Babylonians and Medes before ca. 650 BC) 
   

3. Topic: Kings of Awan and Anshan (before 2100 BC)  
   

4. Topic: Kings of Anshan and Susa (2100-1600 BC)  
   

5. Topic: Kings of Anshan and Susa (1600 - 760 BC)
   

6. Topic: Kings of Anshan and Susa (760 - 650 BC)  
   

7. Topic: Kings of Anshan and Susa (after  650 BC)
   

8. Darius the Great (522 - 486 BC)
   

9. Topic: Foundation Deposits of the Apadana at Persepolis
   

10. Topic: Coinage of Abdera
    

Prior Events: Macedonians

1. Alexander I: Darius
   

2. Argead Foundation Myth
   

3. Alexander I:  Xerxes’ March to Macedonia
   

4. Alexander I: Persian War III:
   

5. Alexander I: Octadrachms I: before the Asyut Hoard
   

6. Alexander I: Octadrachms II: after the Asyut Hoard
   

7. Alexander I: Octadrachms: Thraco-Macedonian Context (I)
   

8. Alexander I: Octadrachms: Thraco-Macedonian Context (II)
   

9. Alexander I: Rhesus
   

10. Alexander I: Tetradrachms
    

11. Coinage: Alexander I - Philip II
    

12. Philip II of Macedonia: Creation of Philip’s  Kingdom (360-355 BC)
    

13. Philip II of Macedonia: Consolidation of Philip’s Kingdom (355 - 346 BC)
    

14. Philip II of Macedonia: Expansion of Philip’s Kingdom (346 - 336 BC)
    

15. Alexander III of Macedonia (336 - 323 BC)
    

16. After Alexander: Diadochi (323 - 282 BC)
    

Rome’s First Foreign Wars

1. King Pyrrhus in Sicily (278-6 BC)
   

2. First Punic War I: (264 -262 BC)
   

3. First Punic War II: (261 - 241 BC)
   

4. Wars in Cisalpine Gaul, Istrya and Illyrium (225 - 218 BC)
   

Second Punic War (218 - 201 BC)

1. I: Hannibal’s Invasion (218 BC) to the Defeat at Trasimene (June 217 BC)
   

2. II: Dictatorship of Q. Fabius Maximus Verrucosus (217 - 6 BC)
   

3. III: War in Italy and Sicily  (216 - 203 BC)
   

4. IV: War in Spain and Africa  (218 - 201 BC)