Maccabees #21 - Rise of the Roman Empire
Posted in Maccabees on Mar 14th, 2009 No Comments »
After the Romans threw off Etruscan domination, they expanded from the city of Rome. In a long series of tough wars, extending for a couple hundred years, the Romans conquered the entire Italian peninsula. Then they took on Carthage in three memorable wars, and controlled the western part of the Mediterranean Sea. Some people, however, believed that the extended empire caused the inhabitants of Rome to grow soft and weak, unlike the previous generations, who grew tough through desperate struggles.
