Rome didn't just use her military to conquer - there was also a planned policy of expansion which helped spread her influence through the Italian peninsula.
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References:
- Cornell, T.J. The Beginnings of Rome: Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars (1000-264BC). New York: Routledge, 1995.
- Crawford, Michael. The Roman Republic, Second Edition. London: Fontana Press, 1992.
- Forsythe, Gary. A Critical History of Early Rome: From Prehistory to the First Punic War. University of California Press, 2006.
- Salmon, E.T. Roman Colonization Under the Republic. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1970.
