WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -It was during this period that Rome drove out the last of the Etruscans king and Rome became a republic. The Romans wanted to protect their borders and gain more land. They conquered their Latin neighbors in central Italy.

Detailed explanation-2: -The First Punic War (264–241 BC) was the first of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage, the two main powers of the western Mediterranean in the early 3rd century BC. For 23 years, in the longest continuous conflict and greatest naval war of antiquity, the two powers struggled for supremacy.

Detailed explanation-3: -Rome Expands With Capture of Etruscan City Even so, Rome was still relatively small by the time it transitioned from a kingdom to a republic in 509 B.C. The republic’s first significant expansion came in 396 B.C., when Rome defeated and captured the Etruscan city of Veii.

Detailed explanation-4: -Rome defeated Carthage in three Punic (Phoenician) Wars and gained mastery of the western Mediterranean. The First Punic War (264-241 B.C.)

Detailed explanation-5: -Rome was able to gain its empire in large part by extending some form of citizenship to many of the people it conquered. Military expansion drove economic development, bringing enslaved people and loot back to Rome, which in turn transformed the city of Rome and Roman culture.