The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 AD . with Carthage. Rhodes, of course, never hadbeen or could be a danger to Romes power. Indeed she hadbeen a most faithful and trusting friend. But the Romanmerchants looked avariciously upon her wide-spread commerce;and a sham excuse was seized upon greedily to rob that help-less friend of her territory and trade. SUMMARY 474. Rome the Sole Great Power. — In 264 Rome hadbeen one of Jive Great Powers (§ 417). By the peace of 201after Zama, Carthage disappeared from that list. In the nextfifty years Cynoscephalae, Magnesia, Pydna, and arr
The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 AD . with Carthage. Rhodes, of course, never hadbeen or could be a danger to Romes power. Indeed she hadbeen a most faithful and trusting friend. But the Romanmerchants looked avariciously upon her wide-spread commerce;and a sham excuse was seized upon greedily to rob that help-less friend of her territory and trade. SUMMARY 474. Rome the Sole Great Power. — In 264 Rome hadbeen one of Jive Great Powers (§ 417). By the peace of 201after Zama, Carthage disappeared from that list. In the nextfifty years Cynoscephalae, Magnesia, Pydna, and arrogant §475] WINNING THE EAST, 201-146 395 Eoman diplomacy removed three of the others. In 146, Romewas the sole Great Power. She had annexed as provinces allthe dominions of Carthage and of Macedonia. Egypt andSyria had become protectorates and were soon to be made prov-inces. All the smaller states had been brought within theRoman sphere of influence. Rome held the heritage of Alex-ander as well as that of Carthage. There remained no state. able to dream of equality with her. Tlie civilized world hadbecome a Graeco-Roman Wbrldj under Eoman sway. 475. The Latin West and the Greek East. — At the same time,while Rome was really mistress in both East and West, her relationswith the two sections were widely different. In the West, Rome ap-peared on the stage as the successor of Carthage; and to the majorityof her Western subjects, despite terrible cruelties in war, she broughtbetter order and higher civilization than they had known. Thus theWestern world became Latin. In the East, Rome appeared first as the liberator of the Greeks. Theprovincial system and the good Roman order were introduced slowly;and to the last, the East remained Greek, not Latin, in language, customs, andthought. The Adriatic continued to divide the Latin and Greek civilizationswhen the two shared the world under the sway of Rome. For Further Reading. — Specially recommended: An admirablebrief tre
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