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Imperialism In Rome During The Punic Wars

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Imperialism Imperialism is the idea that a country has the right to expand its power and wealth by conquering and exploiting countries and people groups. This can be in either an aggressive or a defensive stance; the romans started their expansion to secure their borders (defensive) whereas Spain expanded for wealth (aggressive). One of the best examples is the rise of the Roman Empire during the Punic wars, these wars were not defensive wars but purely Rome’s desire to expand and weaken its only rival to Mediterranean dominance Carthage. Rome’s war on Carthage would end in it being an empire even if it did not have an emperor, its lands did not only have roman people it now had Greeks, Iberians and North Africans. Rome did this
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