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>
Interventionism- to prevent Soviet influence, to keep control over natural resources ,and more recently: to prevent the spread of religious fundamentalist terrorism
The district courts hear the greatest number of cases primarily because they are the trial courts of the federal court system.
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Generally speaking, Andrew Johnson's behavior in office ultimately hurt the cause of the Reconstruction era, since he quickly abandoned many of the more liberal policies that he had trumpeted earlier--leading to a federal abandonment of the oversight process in the South.
