I am Spartacus!

-73 BC- Spartacus was a gladiator in Capua.
   -Came from very mysterious origins, but was probably originally from Greece.
   -It's unknown how he became a slave.
      -Possibly ex-military?
   -While he was training to be a gladiator he formulated a plan to escape.  He organized like 200 fellow gladiators, and managed to revolt and escape the camp.
      -They immediately began to raid the countryside, attacking wealthy villas around Capua.  Slaves from all over the region began to join his band.
-Eventually, Spartacus' band grew into an army numbering in the thousands.
   -They set up camp near Mt. Vesuvius.
      -This was the beginning of the Third Servile War (also known as the Gladiator War / the War of Spartacus).  The First and Second Servile Wars were slave revolts in Sicily.
-A militia was sent to deal with Spartacus and his rebellion, but they were quickly slaughtered.
   -A second militia was sent, and they were slaughtered as well!
-Many slaves began to flock to this army at this point, and soon Spartacus' army was about 70,000 strong!
-Spartacus wanted to eventually push north to escape Italy, but others were happy to just cause chaos in the countryside.
   -There was a split, with a dude named Crixus leading those who wanted to stay in Italy.
-The Roman legions were finally dispatched, and because the armies had split, they easily crushed Crixus' army.  Spartacus' army, however, proved to be more difficult, and his army actually won against the legions!
-Spartacus was then free to leave Italy.  So why didn't he?
   -Instead of fleeing to the north, he headed south.
-Finally, Crassus raised an army of 50,000.
   -Spartacus had gone so far south at this point that he was stuck in Bruttium (modern-day Calabria).
      -Pirates had promised Spartacus that they would transport his army to Sicily, but instead they just took his money and didn't help him at all.
         -As a result, Crassus (joined by Pompey) crushed Spartacus' army.
-Crassus and Pompey were then elected consuls.
-To deter further slave rebellions, Crassus had 6000 of the surviving slaves from Spartacus' army crucified along the Appian Way, from Rome to Capua.