LO2 Roman Expantion

The Roman Expansion
- Rome was above all military people.
- They were generous in there treatment to the enemy after defeat.
- They gave them the status of allies.
- But they also tightened control over the Italian peninsula by creating colonies of settlers from Rome.
- The settlers where discharged soldiers and there families.
- The allies provided light infantry and cavalry, something that the Romans lacked.
- Roman colonists enjoyed rights of citizenship that were almost equal people of Rome.

The Punic War
- Roman methods of conquest and admiration paid handsome dividends.
- from 250 BC Italy South of the River Po was under Roman control.
- This success brought a collision with Carthage, on the north coast of Africa.
- Founded in 700 BC by Phoenician colonists, Carthage had become an oligarchy and building a Republic similar to Romes.
- This spread across North Africa, Southern Spain, Sardinia, Corsica, and Sicily.
- The Punic War waged on land and sea in 3 rounds between 246 and 146 BC.
1. Pushed Carthage out of Sicily.
2. Carthage General Hannibal invaded Italy and pushing Rome to the edge of defeat.
3. Carthage was captured and defeated.