Roman Expansion

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This fourteen page paper analyzes Roman expansion. It discusses the political, military, geographical and economic factors that led to the expansion of Rome. The paper also discusses the Roman view that they fought only just wars and their claim that it was only Rome's need to defend itself from threats on all sides that led to expansion and ultimately to imperial domination.

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"Roman Expansion: An Analysis of Political, Military, and Economic Motives Beginning with the founding of Rome around 758 BCE, the expansion of Roman power was due to a variety of political, military, geographical, and economic factors. Polybius believed that after their defeat of Hannibal and Carthage, the Romans resolved to assert their domination throughout the Mediterranean. This identified motive for Roman expansion conflicts with the Roman view that they fought only just wars, and claim that it was only Rome's need to defend itself from threats on all sides that led to expansion and ultimately to imperial domination. Many historians have offered other causes and motives for Roman expansion, such as a desire to profit from conquest, an interest in commercial expansion, imperial ambition, martial prestige, and the economics of slavery."

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