HIST 3131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Illyrian Wars, Gallia Narbonensis, Olive Oil

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Specific evidence: first illyrian war (229 bce, the free harbour at delos (167 bce) It was not just romans who did not have to pay customs fees here, it was for everyone. Romans were possibly trying to damage the city of rhodes by setting up a free port in. Delos: the ban on grape and olive cultivation in transalpine gaul (c. 154 bce) Cicero says it was to raise the value of roman wine and olives. If this was a purely mercantile interest, growth of olives and grapes would have been prohibited elsewhere like spain. Romans could have been helping their ally in southern gaul have a local monopoly on wine and olive oil: the destruction of carthage (146 bce) Destroy carthage, all traders would go to rome. But carthage was a great economic site that was not resettled until the early reign of. There is little specific evidence to show the senate making bad decisions based on mercantile interests.

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