The Beginnings of Imperial Rome: Rome in the Mid-Republic

During the years centring on 300 B.C. Rome conquered the Italian peninsula and reorganized its internal structure of government. Yet its urban centre has conventionally been described as an overgrown village of peasants, interested only in acquiring land; its leaders are pictured as indifferent to important cultural and economic developments in the Mediterranean world as a whole. 

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