CLA231H1 Lecture : Roman Expansion in Italy and War with Pyrrhus
Document Summary
Roman expansion in italy and war with pyrrhus. 4th century expansion: every year a military campaign took place, early conquest of veii ~396 bce. Lower class was done away with (killed, enslaved) City was refounded as a roman satellite: some cities instead of waiting to be attacked, they requested subjugation, rome established colonies at crucial locations (road intersections, bodies of water, etc. The defeated latins were allowed full roman citizenship, volsci and. Campanians given the same, but were not allowed to vote: these new cities could not negotiate with foreigners, they could only negotiate through rome, also, they needed to contribute manpower to rome"s military, thereby growing. In the 5th century bce, the most powerful city states athens and sparta fought one another, known as the peloponnesian war. In the mid-4th century bce, macedonia took the weakened athens and sparta and ended the classical greek era and entered the hellenistic greek era.
