A first book in American history with European beginnings . fense of their capital. At length theRomans sent a part of their army into Africa. ThenHannibal was forced to abandon his campaign in Italyand return home to defend Carthage. From this pointon, Rome was not only out of danger but turned thetables and warred successfully against Carthage. Atlast, in 202 , the mighty Hannibal bowed his headin defeat. Rome had broken forever the strength ofCarthage. And later the Romans completed their vic-tory by burning Carthage to the ground. JULIUS C/ESAR With Carthage, her strongest rival, overt
A first book in American history with European beginnings . fense of their capital. At length theRomans sent a part of their army into Africa. ThenHannibal was forced to abandon his campaign in Italyand return home to defend Carthage. From this pointon, Rome was not only out of danger but turned thetables and warred successfully against Carthage. Atlast, in 202 , the mighty Hannibal bowed his headin defeat. Rome had broken forever the strength ofCarthage. And later the Romans completed their vic-tory by burning Carthage to the ground. JULIUS C/ESAR With Carthage, her strongest rival, overthrown,Rome was mistress of great power. But people whohave tasted wealth and glory usually crave for more,and so Rome was not content with her conquests. Great armies were sent into all the countries aroundthe Mediterranean, and Egypt, Asia Minor, Greece, andmuch of southern Europe fell before them and becameRoman provinces, ruled by Roman governors. All the land which is now France, Belgium, andSwitzerland was then called Gaul. And into Gaul the 14 ITALY. The Temple in Which Cesar, When aBoy, Served as Priest. Roman troops were led by Julius Caesar, the greatest ofall the Romans. While conquering Gaul, Caesar first came into contactwith the great German race which was later to overthrowthe magnificent Ro-man empire. TheGallic tribes werealways fighting eachother, and someyears before, certaintribes who were get-ting the worst ofaffairs had asked theGermans to comeover the Rhine and help them. This the Germans had done gladly; onlywhen the battle was ended, they had refused to return totheir own side of the Rhine. Instead they had seizedupon lands belonging to the Gauls and settled an arrangement was not to Caesars liking. So hedecided that he must drive the Germans back to theirold homes. Even the brave Roman soldiers lost courage whenthey heard stories of the terrible size and bravery of the barbarians. To the smaller, dark-skinned Romansoldier these huge warriors,
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