Time has seen a number of great empire rise and fall for example, the Assyrian, the Egyptian, the Babylonian, and lastly the Persian. Regardless the size or the skills that their armies have, all these empire fell into a ruin. History has demonstrated that one of the main reasons why empires fall is because of their vast size, they grew too large to manage. Of course, one of them was the Roman Empire which over centuries grew from a small Italian city to control land throughout Europe across the Balkans to the Middle East and into North Africa.
As we know there was Three Punic Wars in which the Romans were a big part in. The Third Punic War was the second time that Rome attacked Carthage. The city came to an end when the Roman senator Cato the Elder stood before the senate and said ” Carthago delenda est.” or “Carthage must die”. In response to the challenge the city was demolished, the land salted, and the people enslaved. The lands that once belonged to Carthage was Spain and North Africa, which were now a part of the Roman Republic. Rome was in control of the Mediterranean Sea. Thus I believe that the Romans had control and knew what they wanted but never really took advantage of their resources.
ROME LOOKS TO THE EAST
Rome turned their attention eastwards toward Balkans and Greece. Rome had always admired the Hellenistic culture, the culture inspired by Alexander the Great. Although much of the Greek peninsula had been uncertain since the death of Alexander. When the king of Macedon, Philip V began to expand in Greece, then Rome by invitation, entered by a fray. Afterwards, Greece fell underneath an umbrella of protection by Rome. Rome finally withdrew completely in 194 BCE, reinstate to diplomacy instead of brute force.
Marble bust of Pompey the Great in the musée du Louvre at Paris
However, as I mentioned above Rome had achieved dominance over the Mediterranean Sea, controlling parts of North Africa, Spain, Italy, and Balkans from 219 BCE. All of this brought wealth to the Republic, and soon came under their control. Pompey the Great would “redraw the map” in the eastern Mediterranean from the Black Sea to Syria and into Judea. Mithridates of Pontus posed a threat to the power of Rome in Asia Minor attacking Rome provinces on the West Coast of what is present day Turkey, which he said his death would bring both power to his son and peace to Rome.
This can relate to modern day society because the president of America wants all the power he can get and by building a wall he believes that he will stop others from coming in and invading or disrupting the way he runs the country. Trump thinks by threatening others he will win. I strongly believe we should change the president, I am very certain others reading this blog agree!
https://www.timemaps.com/encyclopedia/history-middle-east/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Middle_East
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