This tribe's strategy of breaking their troops into small segments, called the Maniple System, was adopted by their larger neighbors.
This tribe's strategy of breaking their troops into small segments, called the Maniple System, was adopted by their larger neighbors. Many people in this tribe are believed to have migrated after the Latifundia system was put in place. Along with the Marsi, this tribe revolted in the Social War and they opposed Crassus and Sulla at the Battle of the Colline Gate, after which many members of this tribe were killed. This tribe won a "battle" in which they trapped the Romans before letting them go unharmed after they passed under an oxen yolk. That battle was the Battle of Caudine Forks. This tribe was the namesake of an early gladiator type, and that type was adopted after this tribe was defeated in the third of three wars. For ten points, name these residents of southern Italy, a tribe that fought Rome namesake wars in the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE.
This tribe's strategy of breaking their troops into small segments, called the Maniple System, was adopted by their larger neighbors.
Samnites