HISTORY
ANCIENT ROME
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Question
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Power moved from a single ruler to an elected republic.
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Rome controlled all of Europe and Asia.
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Rome won new territory only through peaceful means.
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Rome fought wars to defend its growing territory.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The growth of the empire happened gradually and came at a price. Romans had to fight countless wars to defend their growing territory and to conquer new lands. Along the way, Rome itself changed. The Romans had once been proud to be governed under a republic of elected leaders.
Detailed explanation-2: -By 200 BC, the Roman Republic had conquered Italy, and over the following two centuries it conquered Greece and Spain, the North African coast, much of the Middle East, modern-day France, and even the remote island of Britain.
Detailed explanation-3: -The expansion of the empire had given the Romans control of trade routes as well as territory. Traders traveling by land and sea connected people and goods throughout the empire. From Spain came wine, olive oil, copper, and gold. Britain sold its tin and wool.
Detailed explanation-4: -Punic Wars, also called Carthaginian Wars, (264–146 bce), a series of three wars between the Roman Republic and the Carthaginian (Punic) empire, resulting in the destruction of Carthage, the enslavement of its population, and Roman hegemony over the western Mediterranean.