The Romans conquered lands which are now in the modern counties of Italy, Malta, Spain, Portugal, France, Britain and Wales, Belgium, Luxembourg, Holland south of the River Rhine, Southern Germany and part of central Germany, Switzerland, Austria, part of western Slovakia, the former Yugoslavia, Albania, Bulgaria, part of Romania, a slither of Moldova, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, northern Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine, a slice of the coast of the Red sea coast of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, coastal Libya, Tunisia, coastal Algeria and northern Morocco.
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Under the auspices of Augustus, more territory was added to the Roman Empire than at any other time. Although history refers to some of this time as the Pax Romana, there was still expansion occurring. He added Egypt, northern Spain, Noricum, Pannonia, Moesia among other territories. He extended the empire's boundary to the Danube.
The Romans did not have to conquer. It was not that conquest was a necessity or a compulsion. Many of Rome's conquests were due to winning wars against different peoples which were fought for different and separate reasons and at different times in history. It was a result of military success.
Rome conquered Western Europe up to the rivers Rhine and Danube, England and Wales, southeastern Europe (the Balkan Peninsula), area of western Asia which covered Turkey, part of northern Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, , Jordan, Israel and a slither of the Saudi Arabia's in the north of the coast of the Red Sea, and Egypt, coastal Libya, Tunisia, coastal Algeria and northern Morocco in North Africa
Cleopatra didn't conquer anything. All the territories she received from Marc Antony were Roman territories and were given to her in exchange for her support in the coming war with Octavian.
As the Roman's began to conquer More and More places Roman culture and politics spread.
it united its territories under a central government
The territories conquered and occupied by Legions of Rome.
During the expansion of the Roman Empire the army sent the wealth of conqured territories and slaves back to Rome, to fuel the Roman economy. The army was followed into territories by merchants and traders who would then acquire goods for sale in Roman markets. During the reign of Augustus the army repaired roads, and set up permenant barracks along trade routes to make travel to and from other territories safer.I hate roman army and i love Germany