LO2

Today in class we are working on LO2. Here are my notes:

• The Romans were above all a military people, patriotic farmers, soldiers.
• Once they made a home they wanted to make allies with other places.
• They were generous with their treatment of defeated enemies. 
• Tightened their control over the Italian peninsula by creating a network of colonies. 
• Roman colonist enjoyed rights of citizenship that were almost equal to those of citizens who lived in Rome itself.

The Punic wars:

• Most non- Romans in Italy gained Roman citizenship.
• 250 B.C- All of Italy south of the River Po was in Roman hands.
• Carthage came into Rome and created a collision.
• 700 B.C- Carthage founded by Phoenician colonist.
• They were a oligarchy empire. 
• Sicily had been fighting with Carthage for a while to gain control of the island they are located on. 
• The Punic Wars were waged on land and sea in three vicious rounds between 264 and 146 B.C.
• The first time they fought, Rome was about to force Carthage out of Sicily.
• Fearing a Carthaginian revival, Rome had provoked a third war in 146 B.C.
• They decided the city was going to be leveled and all of the people there were going to be sent into slavery.

• Former possessions of Carthage in Sicily, Spain, and Africa became the first Roman provinces. 
• after Augustus in 27 B.C, the provinces began to share in the benefits of Roman order. 
• Romans had unified most of Italy after the Punic Wars were over with.
• Right after Rome defeated Carthage, Rome began to look on the eastern Mediterranean to gain even more land territory.
• 200 B.C- ambassadors from various Greek city-states appealed to Rome for aid in resisting the king of Macedonia, even though he had been allies with Carthage before the fighting broke out.
• Romans became supreme in the region around late first century B.C.
• From Gibraltar to Jerusalem fell the shadow of the might Rome.