HISTORY
ANCIENT ROME
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all of North Africa.
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the Italian peninsula.
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the Britain and its islands.
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the Greece’s mainland.
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Detailed explanation-1: -By 264 B.C.E., Rome and its allies controlled all of the Italian peninsula. However, expansion came at a price. The Romans had to build and maintain a full-time, professional army at great expense. Also, most soldiers were plebeians, and not patricians.
Detailed explanation-2: -By 264 B.C.E., Rome and its allies controlled all of the Italian peninsula. expansion, from 145 to 44 B.C.E., Rome came to rule the entire Mediterranean world. In the east, Rome took control of Asia Minor, Syria, and Egypt. In the west, the Roman general Julius Caesar conquered much of Gaul (modern-day France).
Detailed explanation-3: -Sicily, 264–257 BC The war began with the Romans gaining a foothold on Sicily at Messana (modern Messina) in 264 BC.
Detailed explanation-4: -While Rome continued to be governed as a Republic for another 50 years, the shift to Imperialism began to materialize in 60 BC when Julius Caesar rose to power. By 51 BC, Julius Caesar had conquered Celtic Gaul and, for the first time, Rome’s borders had spread beyond the Mediterranean region.