re conquered by the Romans in the Latin wars. In 340 B.C.E Campania attempted to annul their affiliation to Rome they were subdued by Roman forces. In less than a century the Romans dominated the northern part of the Italian Peninsula by conquering the Etuscans, Samnites, Gauls, and Umbrians. The Romans then turned to the south and faced Pyrrus of Epirus. He won a few early, costly victories, Pyrric victories, but was eventually overcome by the Romans. The Romans also expelled the Greeks from the peninsula. In 264 B.C.E Pyrruhus troops withdrew and Rome, either threw alliance or conquest, controlled everything south of the Po valley. After gaining control over most of the Italian peninsula Rome turned set out to conquer Carthage, its arch-rival across the Mediterranean in Africa, in a and the rest of the Western Mediterranean. Rome engaged Carthage in the Punic Wars. Due to advancement in Roman naval technology the first Punic war ended in victory for the Romans in 241 B.C.E. In 227 B.C.E Rome annexed Sardinia and Corsica. Taking advantage of mutiny by Carthaginian troops. The second Punic War begun when the Romans where defeated by Hannibal and the Carthaginians defeated the Romans at the Spanish city of Saguntum in 219 B.C.E. The Second Punic war was well fought by both sides. But, the Romans won the twenty-year struggle. In the third Punic war the Romans sacked Carthage. With the most formidable adversary out of the way the Romans went on to conquer Southwestern Europe, Greece, Northwestern Europe and Britain. Rome did not always use warfare to conquer other peoples they sometimes would extend a limited citizenship to their others and incorporated men from conquered lands into their armies. Eventually the Roman army was not even Roman. The men who made up their armies where professional soldiers not from Rome.The period between 481 B.C.E and 221 B.C.E in Chinese history are known as the Warring States period. It i...
