The Punic wars were a conflict divided in three periods in which Rome fought against the Carthaginians to gain control of most of the region of the Mediterranean. Rome being victorious almost entirely and gaining control of Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily (first one), Spain and Zama (second one) and ending with the control of Macedonia by 146 BC.
The industrial revolution created more classes, not less. Therefore, arguments about larger gaps in social classes are difficult to support, Prior to the industrial revolution two main classes existed. The landed nobility and their poor farm workers.
