Thursday October 4

THe punic wars series of 3 wars rome vs carthage ist was control over sicily 2nd war hannibal came gerneral wanted to avenge first defeat 3rd war scipio attacked catage and hanibal retreated and fought back at native cuty. Rome won each war they kept getting harder the first 2 they were defneding the 3rd war they attacked. The roman republic after the war the rapid expansion began to hurt the empire. The land was going to large estates and the small farmers didnt make miney and were out of jobs. Avengers of ceaser octavion antony lepidus they killed ceasers killers.  Antony left cuz of love octavion forced lepidous to quit so octavion was sole leader. ROme was at the peak of its power throuought augustus riel pax romana roman peace.

Slavery was not due to race but it was still abusive and cruel. Slaves were foreigners and were the property of there owners and they could be killed at any point and not be punished. They are a lot like the slaves during the civil war. They would be rented out or sold and they did all of the work in the roman empire. and there was a lot of them.

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