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When Rome expanded into central and southern Italy in the late 4th and early 3rd centuries BC, she made alliances with the Italic peoples who lived there. The allies provided soldiers who fought alongside the Roman legions in auxiliary troops in exchange for protection and a share of the spoils of war. When the allies rebelled against Rome in the social War, or War of the Allies (90-88 BC) because she refused to grant them Roman citizenship. Rome won, but did grant them Roman citizenship. In 42 BC Italy was into a Roman province and was joined with Gallia Cisalpina (northern Italy) which had been a province before this.

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