ANCH1250 Lecture 4: War and Expansion: Italy and Overseas
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Lecture 4: war and expansion: italy and overseas. The early roman army: citizens (based on wealth: what weapons can you afford?, richest = cavalry, propertyless excluded from army (couldn"t afford own weapons) How romans fight: cavalry- pretty poor tbh, heavy infantry in three lines: First treaty signed in 509 bc: polybius, histories 3. 22-26: demarcated roman and carthaginian territory in the. Latins rebelled against rome, defeated in 499 bc at the battle of lake regillus. Temple of the castores (the dioscuri, castor and pollux) Spurius cassius signs treaty with the latins in 493 bc: treaty inscribed on a bronze pillar in the forum, and recorded by dionysius of halicarnassus, rights of conubium (marriage) and comercium (trade) League fought against aequi, the volsci and the sabines. Conflict with veii: vei conquered in 396 bc. The sack of rome by the gauls (390 bc) The latin revolt (341-338 bc: 340bc: consul t. manlius torquatus.
