The correct answers are: A - C - D - E
• The Samnite wars were a series of armed conflicts of antiquity that confronted mainly the italic people of the Samnites, who dominated the Apennines south of Lazio, against the incipient Roman Republic for the control of the central Italy.
• The Celtic tribes who fought among themselves and sometimes allied with the Romans, the Greeks and other peoples against other Celtic tribes. Tribal warfare seems to have been a common feature of Celtic societies. While the epic literature describes this as a sport more focused on raids and hunting than an organized territorial conquest, the historical record seems to indicate more than the use of war by the tribes to exercise political control and harass its rivals, obtain an economic benefit, and in some cases to the conquest of territory.
• The Roman-Etruscan wars were a series of wars fought between ancient Rome (during the period of both monarchy and republic) and the Etruscans, from the early years of the history of Rome. The information on many of these wars is very limited, particularly those that occurred during the first years of Rome, and to a large extent there is only information from ancient texts.
• The three armed conflicts between 264 a. C. and 146 a. C. to the two main powers of the western Mediterranean of the time: Rome and Carthage.
