CLA231H1 Lecture 7: Warfare and Expansion Continued; Economy
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146 bce, rome destroys corinth and carthage; greek leagues broken up (statement of roman power) 146 bce, macedonia and greece organized as provinces. 133 bce, after death of last attalid king, asia made a province. Phoenician maritime civilization was active in colonization, one of their key colonies being carthage, around the same time rome was founded. As the romans take over the rest of the italian peninsula, an inevitable conflict with. Carthage grew as they extended towards each other. Carthage are a sea power, so they do not like rome expanding seaward. A series of naval battles of the coast of sicily, devolving into a stale-mate land battle, ending with a treaty. Exact causes unclear other than tension; possibly unintentional. Mamertines of messana, on sicily, feeling pressure from syracuse: ask the romans and the carthaginians for aid and both go to messana and have conflict with each other.
