The treatment of the outlying Latium towns was very important to the Roman government because it was with these towns that Rome would develop a system of political organization that the Romans would later make use of when expanding their territory to the rest of the Italic peninsula and the Mediterranean. This system was the "Roman policy of isolation." (Morey, 1901). This policy treated the villages of Latium in various ways: Some towns were fully incorporated, this meant that they had all the rights of a Roman citizen. Other towns were partially incorporated, this meant that they had some rights, but not all of them. Other towns were made dependent allies, this meant that they withhold their local government, but they were still subordinate