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Rome became dominant in the Western Mediterranean and then became progressively embroiled in the Eastern Mediterranean in the spillover of the war.

The wars had also had an adverse effect on the Roman small farmers who were the backbone of the Roman army and had been away from their farms for so long. Land was stolen in their absence, and the mass of slaves provided by the defeated Carthaginians made small-farming less viable. This sowed the seeds of the Roman civil wars brought on by the Gracchi brothers' attempts to restore the small-farm class.

When the Germans invasion began, the remaining small-farmers were insufficient to man the army and the unpropertied were drafted. These had no farms to go back to, and relied on their generals to look after their welfare, providing them with a powerful clientele and adding to the pressures leading to the civil wars.

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