HISTORY
ANCIENT ROME
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Its victory of Carthage in the Punic Wars. After the Punic Wars Rome was able to control the surrounding rim of the Mediterranean Sea.
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When Romulus killed Remus and built his new city in Rome, 15 miles inland on the Tiber River.
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It had a representative democracy.
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It had a direct democracy.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Rome won the first Punic War when Carthage agreed to terms in 241 BC, in doing so, Rome became the dominant navy in the Mediterranean Sea, Carthage had to pay for war damages, and Rome took control of all of the Carthaginian lands on the island of Sicily.
Detailed explanation-2: -The victory and subsequent destruction of the city of Carthage marked the end of the Punic Wars and represented Rome’s replacement of Carthage as the dominant power of the Western Mediterranean, a position it would hold for the next several centuries.
Detailed explanation-3: -The immediate cause of the war was the issue of control of the independent Sicilian city state of Messana (modern Messina). In 264 BC Carthage and Rome went to war, starting the First Punic War.