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By 290 BC, Rome controlled over half of the Italian peninsula. In the 3rd century BC, Rome brought the Greek poleis in the south under its control as well. [citation needed] Roman expansion in Italy from 500 BC to 218 BC through the Latin War (light red), Samnite Wars (pink/orange), Pyrrhic War (beige), and First and Second Punic War (yellow ...
499 BC - A battle against foreign tribes commences, including the construction of the Temple of Castor and Pollux. 396 BC - The Etruscan city of Veio is defeated by the Romans; 390 BC - Rome is sacked by the Gauls after the Battle of the Allia; 380 BC - The once destroyed Servian Wall is reconstructed. 312 BC - The Via Appia and Aqua Appia are ...
Macedonia was divided into four districts subject to Rome. 155 BC: Lusitanian War: The Lusitanians of Hispania Ulterior rebelled against Rome. 150 BC: Fourth Macedonian War: An Andriscus rebelled against Rome, claiming to be Perseus's son and the rightful king of Macedonia. 149 BC: Third Punic War: Rome declared war on Carthage.
The birth of the Roman Republic after the overthrow of the Etruscan monarch of Rome in 509 BC began a series of major wars between the Romans and the Etruscans. In 390 BC, Gauls from the north of Italy sacked Rome. In the second half of the 4th century BC Rome clashed repeatedly with the Samnites, a powerful tribal coalition of the Apennine region.
The same evidence has also conclusively discredited A. Alfoldi's once-fashionable theory that Rome was an insignificant settlement until c. 500 BC (and that, consequently, the Republic was not established before c. 450 BC). There is now no doubt that Rome was a major city in the period 625–500 BC, when it had an area of c. 285 hectares and an ...
Kings of Rome; Roman expansion in Italy from 500 BC to 218 BC through the Latin War (light red), Samnite Wars (pink/orange), Pyrrhic War (beige), and First and Second Punic War (yellow and green). Cisalpine Gaul (238-146 BC) and Alpine valleys (16-7 BC) were later added. The Roman Republic in 500 BC is marked with dark red. Roman Republic
Territorial development of the Roman Republic and of the Roman Empire (Animated map) The history of the Roman Empire covers the history of ancient Rome from the traditional end of the Roman Republic in 27 BC until the abdication of Romulus Augustulus in AD 476 in the West, and the Fall of Constantinople in the East in 1453.
A census counted about 270,000 residents of Rome. 291 BC: Samnite Wars: Rome conquered and colonized the Samnite city of Venosa. 290 BC: Samnite Wars: The last effective Samnite resistance was eliminated. 289 BC: Agathocles dies, and democracy is restored in Syracuse due to his wish to not have his sons succeed him as king. 287 BC