Roman conquest of Italy
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 101 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5083-7951-3
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Roman conquest of Italy was the result of a series of conflicts in which the city-state of Rome grew from being the dominant state in Latium to become the ruler of all of Italy. The first major Roman conquest in historical times came with the final defeat of her neighbour Veii in 396 BC. In the second half of the 4th century Rome clashed repeatedly with the Samnites, a powerful tribal coalition. By the end of these wars Rome had become the most powerful state in Italy. The last threat to Roman hegemony came when Tarentum enlisted the aid of Pyrrhus of Epirus during the Pyrrhic War (282 - 272 BC). By 264 BC Roman conquest of Italy had been completed. (Not including the islands of Sicily and Sardinia and the area north of the river Rubicon, known by the Romans as Cisalpine Gaul, which were not then considered part of Italy proper). Conquered territories were incorporated into the growing Roman state in a number of ways: land confiscations,...