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ROME SPREADS ITS POWER Rome expands territory 4 th century BC: Rome dominates central Italy

ROME SPREADS ITS POWER Rome expands territory 4 th century BC: Rome dominates central Italy 390 BC: Gauls (Celtic people) sack Rome Rome quickly recovers, defeat Etruscans in North Defeat Greek city-states in South 265 BC: Romans rule Italy, except Po Valley

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ROME SPREADS ITS POWER Rome expands territory 4 th century BC: Rome dominates central Italy

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  1. ROME SPREADS ITS POWER • Rome expands territory • 4th century BC: Rome dominates central Italy • 390 BC: Gauls (Celtic people) sack Rome • Rome quickly recovers, defeat Etruscans in North • Defeat Greek city-states in South • 265 BC: Romans rule Italy, except Po Valley • Latins become citizens of Rome

  2. WAR WITH CARTHAGE (264 BC) • First Punic War • Beginning of Punic Wars • Fought 3 wars between 264-146 BC) • First lasted 23 years • Over control of Sicily, and western Mediterranean Sea • Carthage defeated

  3. Second Punic War • Begins in 218 BC • The General Hannibal leads Carthage • Assembles an enormous army • Led army across Alps, invades northern Italy • Won greatest victory at Cannae in 216 BC • Romans suffer heavy losses • Romans regroup, prevent Hannibal from capturing Rome • Roman General Scipio attacks Carthage • 202BC: Romans finally defeat Hannibal

  4. Third Punic War (149-146 BC) • Senator Cato of Rome: “Carthage Must be Destroyed” • Carthage no longer a threat • Romans angered by its return to prosperity • Rome seizes Carthage • Carthage set afire in 146 BC • 50,000 inhabitants sold into slavery • Territory made new province of Africa • Rome dominates Mediterranean region • Rome controls Macedonia and Greece in east • 70 BC: Empire stretches from Anatolia to Spain

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