HISTORY 1M03 Lecture 2: History 1M03 (Reeves, 2018): Part 2, Lecture 2
18 Mar 2018
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Not a lot of different praenomenon (first names) Only roman citizens have the 3 names. Italian manpower gives the roman military its strength. Consular armies - 2 roman legions, 2 allied (4200 men) If you got rid of one legion, more would appear. Municipia - towns left to govern themselves, fairly autonomous, just have to produce troops for army. Some places are given roman citizenship (usually as a reward), but usually the communities were given a legally subordinate status (latin citizenship) City of rome is now a true world power, dominating italian peninsula. Control is consolidated by construction of first major road ( via appia ) Carthage = most powerful state in western mediterranean. 218: hannibal (carthaginian general) marches army to italy. Romans take fight to carthage and invade north africa. Carthage is allowed to continue to exist but must pay a large amount + is stripped of its empire. Philip v (antigonid king of macedon) takes side of carthage.
