LO-2: The Roman Expansion

     Mr. Schick wasn't in class today so Mrs. Stall, the German teacher, subbed for us. We all worked quietly on outlining LO-2. 

 The Romans Expansion

• the Romans were above all military people
• Their first wars were against the Etruscan, Italian, and Barbarian people
• One of Rome's main assets was its superior army 

Allies and colonies  

• The Roman were shrewdly generous in their treatment of defeated enemies
• The Romans tightened control over the Italian peninsula by creating a network of colonies which were their allies
• The Roman colonies enjoyed their rights of citizenship
• Rome became political entity 

The Punic Wars 

• Rome battled against Carthage 
• the Punic wars were waged on the land and the sea in three rounds which Rome won
• Rome gained all control of the western Mediterranean 

Conquering an Empire

• with former possession of Carthage in Sicily, Spain, and Africa became the first Roman providences
• these administrative units did not enjoy the status of Rome's allies in Italy, instead they were ruled as conquered lands 
• some local rulers survived by becoming client kings bound to Rome by ties of allegiance and support like those between Roman patrons
• in the course of endless maneuvering an fighting, the Romans carved one province after another out of the eastern Mediterranean and made many a local ruler into a client king, until by the early first century B.C., they were supreme in the region. From Gibralter to Jerusalem fell the shadow of mighty Rome.