1.) <span>Lepidus, Octavian and Antony formed t</span>he second triumvirate and proceeded to take over Rome, splitting provinces.
2.) Augustus ruled as emperor and expanded the empire.
Adding on to the first answer ^^^
Primary sources can also be unreliable as they are biased depending on the source.
If comparing histories of different countries, they tend to describe more victories rather than failures. Also, having a picture as a primary source can be misleading as it can be interpreted in different ways. Sources written in the first person can also have their own biased from the environment the author has lived in.
Settlers encouraged assimilation because they didnt want to just force them off of their land they wanted to have alternate ideas and it didnt really work although some did assimilate.
More than 4000 years ago, the Phoenicians settled on a territory that today belongs to Lebanon and part of it to Syria. They occupied a narrow strip of land between the Lebanese Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea, of approximately 25 miles wide and 125 miles long.
Despite of this apparent unfavorable condition, their coast was marked by a landscape suitable for ports at their main cities and their lands were filled with cedar trees, which provided the wood for their ships. Besides that, they stood at the main waypoint for commercial Asian caravans that traveled to trade with the big nations of the Mediterranean, like Greece and Thrace.
