Important Roman People

Name the Roman/Byzantine figure based off their description, or their accomplishments.

The Byzantine Empire is considered synonymous with Rome

Answers are in chronolical order, beginning in 753 BC

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Founded Rome in 753 BC and reigned as it's first king	Romulus
Expelled King Tarquinius Superbus and established the Res Republica in 509 BC	Lucius Junius Brutus
Defended the Pons Sublicius against Etruscan king Lars Porsena in 509 BC	Publius Horatius Cocles
Became Dictator, then resigned to his farm after defeating the Aequi in 458 BC	Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Sacrificed himself in battle against the Italians at Vesuvius in 340 BC	Publius Decius Mus
Defeated Carthaginian general Hannibal at Zama in 202 BC	Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus
Won the Second Macedonian War at the Battle of Cynoscephalae in 197 BC	Titus Quinctius Flamininus
Was consul 5 times in a row; reformed the Roman army	Gaius Marius
Ordered proscriptions to purge his political rivals after becoming Dictator in 82 BC	Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix
Put down Spartacus's slave revolt in 71 BC	Marcus Licinius Crassus
Defeated Armenian king Tigranes II at Tigranocerta in 69 BC	Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
Created the Julian Calendar with the help of Sosigenes of Alexandria in 46 BC	Gaius Iulius Caesar
Roman orator and politician, killed at the hands of Marcus Antonius in 43 BC	Marcus Tullius Cicero
Seized Egypt in 30 BC, winning the War of Actium and unifying the Roman Republic under his rule	Caesar Augustus
Commissioned the Flavian Amphitheatre in the 70's AD	Vespasian
Briefly conquered Mesopotamia from the Parthians in 116 AD	Trajan
Ended the Crisis of the Third Century and reunified the Roman Empire in 274 AD	Aurelian
Divided Rome into the Tetrarchy before abdicating the throne in 305 AD	Diocletian
Ended the persecution of Christians in the Edict of Milan in 313 AD	Constantine
Reconquered much of the Western Roman Empire in the 6th Century AD as a general of Emperor Justinian	Belisarius
Adopted the Sasanian king Khosrow II in 591 AD and initiated the short-lived "perpetual peace"	Maurice
Usurped Emperor Phocas in 610 AD, lost the Levant to the Rashidun Caliphate	Heraclius
Outlawed the veneration of images in his empire in 726 AD	Leo III
Subjugated the First Bulgarian Empire, conquering up to the Danube by 1018 AD	Basil II
Captured by the Seljuq Turks at Manzikert in 1071 AD	Romanos IV Diogenes
Reconciled with the Pope and called for a crusader army to reconquer Anatolia in 1095 AD	Alexios I Komnenos
Reclaimed Constantinople from the Latin Empire in 1261 AD, founding the Roman Empire's last dynasty	Michael VIII Palaiologos
Final Roman Emperor, died to the Ottomans in 1453 AD	Constantine XI

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