17 Facts About Roman expansion

1.

The core of the campaign history of the Roman military is an aggregate of different accounts of the Roman military's land battles, from its initial defense against and subsequent conquest of the city's hilltop neighbors on the Italian peninsula, to the ultimate struggle of the Western Roman Empire for its existence against invading Huns, Vandals and Germanic tribes.

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Roman expansion army battled first against its tribal neighbours and Etruscan towns within Italy, and later came to dominate the Mediterranean and at its height the provinces of Britannia and Asia Minor.

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3.

Knowledge of Roman expansion history stands apart from other civilizations in the ancient world.

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4.

Roman expansion is said to have shown valour in the campaign, and to have routed a great army of the enemy.

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5.

Roman expansion took the wealthy town of Suessa Pometia, with the spoils of which he commenced the erection of the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus which his father had vowed.

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6.

Roman expansion was next engaged in a war with Gabii, one of the Latin cities, which had rejected the Latin treaty with Rome.

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7.

The Roman expansion army, camped outside Ardea, welcomed Lucius Junius Brutus as their new leader, and expelled the king's sons.

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8.

Roman expansion army had not yet seen elephants in battle, and their inexperience turned the tide in Pyrrhus' favour at the Battle of Heraclea in 280 BC, and again at the Battle of Ausculum in 279 BC.

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Roman expansion allied himself with the warlike Bastarnae, and both this and his actions in Greece possibly violated the treaty signed with the Romans by his father or, if not, certainly was not "behaving as [Rome considered] a subordinate ally should".

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10.

Roman expansion is remembered as one of Rome's most formidable and successful enemies who engaged three of the most prominent generals of the late Roman Republic: Sulla, Lucullus, and Pompey the Great.

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11.

Roman expansion then followed the main body of the pirates to their strongholds on the coast of Cilicia, and destroyed them there in the naval Battle of Korakesion.

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12.

In 51 BC, some Roman expansion senators demanded that Caesar would not be permitted to stand for Consul unless he turned over control of his armies to the state, and the same demands were made of Pompey by other factions.

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13.

In 115 AD, revolt broke out again in the province, leading to the second Jewish-Roman expansion war known as the Kitos War, and again in 132 AD in what is known as Bar Kokhba's revolt.

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14.

The time was characterized by a Roman expansion army that was as likely to be attacking itself as it was an outside invader, reaching a low point around 258 AD.

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15.

Roman expansion's murderers were working on behalf of the army who were unhappy with their lot under his rule and who raised in his place Maximinus Thrax.

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16.

The Roman expansion people were by the 5th century "bereft of their military ethos" and the Roman expansion army itself a mere supplement to federated troops of Goths, Huns, Franks and others fighting on their behalf.

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17.

The Roman expansion capital had by this time moved to the Italian city of Ravenna, but some historians view 410 AD as an alternative date for the true fall of the Roman expansion Empire.

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