. Ancient civilization; an introduction to modern history . , instead of those of the Cartha-ginians, were trading in all the cities of the ancient Mediterraneanworld. In 199 , three years after the battle of Zama, a Romanarmy crossed the Adriatic and began a campaign against the kingof Macedonia. This was the beginning of the wars against conauest ofthe peoples of the eastern Mediterranean: Macedonians, the ancientGreeks, Syrians, and Egyptians. These wars, according ^^to Livy, are not to be compared to the war with Carthage, eitherin danger to the Roman state or in the abilities of the c
. Ancient civilization; an introduction to modern history . , instead of those of the Cartha-ginians, were trading in all the cities of the ancient Mediterraneanworld. In 199 , three years after the battle of Zama, a Romanarmy crossed the Adriatic and began a campaign against the kingof Macedonia. This was the beginning of the wars against conauest ofthe peoples of the eastern Mediterranean: Macedonians, the ancientGreeks, Syrians, and Egyptians. These wars, according ^^to Livy, are not to be compared to the war with Carthage, eitherin danger to the Roman state or in the abilities of the commanders,or in the valor of the soldiers, but are, perhaps, more remarkableon account of the renown of the former kings and the ancient fameof the nations. They lasted approximately 150 years. Whenthey were over, the Roman republic was in control of an em-pire greater in extent than that of the Assyrians or the stretched from the Euphrates River to the Atlantic Ocean;it included every country bordering on the shores of the Mediter-ranean
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