. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. THE MEDITERRANEAN LANDS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SECOND PUNIC AVAR Roman Possessions and Allies [^ Free Greek States j_ Carthaginian 1 Syrian Possessions Q Macedonian | Egyptian i{ \ , Engr., ;s^ -^ospf C^e itSo»eS^. Byza- SC7^ T0m\c8ea. tia ?pa^uS .& SOD«S 47, re^ H* THE FIRST PUNIC WAR. 141 compact and confined to a single and easily defendedpeninsula. Again, the subject peoples of Carthages empire were inrace, language, and religion mostly alien to their Phoenicianconquerors, and so were ready, upon the
. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. THE MEDITERRANEAN LANDS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SECOND PUNIC AVAR Roman Possessions and Allies [^ Free Greek States j_ Carthaginian 1 Syrian Possessions Q Macedonian | Egyptian i{ \ , Engr., ;s^ -^ospf C^e itSo»eS^. Byza- SC7^ T0m\c8ea. tia ?pa^uS .& SOD«S 47, re^ H* THE FIRST PUNIC WAR. 141 compact and confined to a single and easily defendedpeninsula. Again, the subject peoples of Carthages empire were inrace, language, and religion mostly alien to their Phoenicianconquerors, and so were ready, upon the first disaster tothe ruling city, to fall away from their allegiance. On theother hand, the Latin allies and the Italian confederatesof Rome were close kin to her, and so through naturalimpulse they for the most part — although not all weresatisfied with their position in the state — remained loyalto her during even the darkest periods of her strugglewith her rival. But the greatest contrast between the two states ap-peared in the principles upon which they were respectivelybased. Carthage was a despotic oligarchy. The manydifferent races of the Carthaginian empire were held in anartificial union by force alone, for the Carthaginians hadnone of the genius of the Romans for political o
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