Rome was initially a city-state with about 50 square miles of territory to sustain itself. With small farms, the citizens could not split them up between their sons and so sought extra land for them. The surrounding city-states were bent on the same need, so they clashed, with Romme losing some, but on average winning most fights. As winners they took land and expanded.
<span>This expansion created more strife, and expansion, leading to dominance of Italy. As a rising power, cities in southern Gaul (France), Spain and Sicily sought Rome's assistance, and as a land power it allied itself with Carthage, a sea power. This arrangement came to an end when Rome supported Greek cities in Sicily against Carthaginian encroachment. A win in the First Punic (Carthaginian) War put the Romans on the path to empire, which was consilidated with the extirmination of Carthage in the Third Punic War in 146 BCE. At this stage Rome dominated the Western Mediterranean. </span>
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World War II was a shock to the world. After the sequence of blood shed in the first half of the century, the ideal was now to preserve some peace. The division of the world into two poles, however, ensured the continuation of regional conflicts: Korea, Vietnam, for example. US and USSR financed these conflicts. Peace, however, would have to be guaranteed by the newly created UN, by international alliances and by the financial assistance of the powers to rebuild the destroyed countries.</span>
That would be a direct democracy. All adult male citizens attending the assembly could vote on the issues proposed at the time.
<span>This era of new imperialism should be expanded beyond boundaries. Imperialism mainly focus on the economics and te decline aspect of it. So apart from economics new Imperialism has motives in both political and religious . Actually the main cause for new Imperialism is abolish slave labor in America and UK</span>
