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公元前400年之后,罗马共和国一直不断地向外扩张,在近100年里,罗马几乎把整个意大利半岛纳入自已的统治之下。他们的坚韧不拔和勇敢精神,经历长期的令人精疲力竭的战争,最终夺得了胜利,使他们一跃成为地中海世界的霸主。这些战争就是布匿战争(由Punica一词而来,即拉丁语中的腓尼基人),是与腓尼基人的帝国迦太基之间的战争。这对年轻的罗马共和国来说是一次胜利,然而,战争的胜利以及对地中海世界的征服,同时也显露出暗藏的可能导致共和国颠覆的阴险力量,并使社会内部的矛盾日益
After 400 BC, the Roman Republic continued to expand outward. For nearly 100 years, Rome had brought almost the entire Italian peninsula under its own rule. Their perseverance and courage, their long, exhausting war, finally won their victory and made them eminently dominant in the Mediterranean world. These wars are the Punic War (from Punica, the Phoenicians in Latin) and the war with Carthage, the Phoenician empire. It was a victory for the young Roman Republic. However, the victory of the war and the conquest of the Mediterranean Sea also revealed hidden hidden forces that could lead to the overthrow of the Republic and brought increasingly contradictions within the society