CLAB06H3 Lecture 3: CLAB06H3 Lecture 3 notes
30 Mar 2018
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Lecture 3: (italy and the empire in the 3rd - 2nd bce) 290-260 bce rome conquered northern and central italy. 281-272 bce victory against pyrrhus, king of epirus. Many cities submitted to rome, created several colonies, more contact between rome and greek cities, local institutions remained. People from area further from rome, for example capua, had only limited citizen rights, they had no rights to vote. People from colonies, such as tarentum, had even lesser rights. Rome became the most powerful country in the italian peninsula. Carthage was the most prosperous phoenician colony, with the best fleet in the mediterranean sea, controlled north africa, western. Carthage lost the war, as the result, lost its colony on sicily, agrigentum and forced to pay a large amount of tribute to rome. The carthaginian general hannibal barca refuse to admit defeat of the first punic war, he attacked the roman ally of saguntum in spain and triggered the war.
