#443 – Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire – Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome

2269.762 - 2299.553 Gregory Aldrete

And Rome first expands in the Western Mediterranean. And there, their big rival is the city-state of Carthage, which is another city founded almost the same time as Rome that has also been a young, vigorously expanding, aggressive empire. So in the Western Empire at this time, you have two sort of rival groups. And they're very different because the Romans are these citizen-soldier farmers, right?