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Rome acquired control over Italy over a period of about 220 years. Most of Italy was not conquered. The largest part Italy was controlled through alliances, not conquest. Rome's first expansion was into the mountains of central and southern Italy as a result of the Three Samnite Wars against the Samnites of southern Italy (343 BC-341 BC, 326 BC 304 BC and 298 BC- 290 BC.) Rome made alliances with the peoples of these areas and only annexed the Sabines.
At the end second of these wars Rome defeated the Aequi a small people in central Italy which had been an old foe of Rome. Following this, five small Sabellic peoples in central Italy (the Marsi, Maruccini, Paeligni and Vestini and Frentani), who had been allies of the Samnites, allied with Rome in 304 BC.
In the Third Samnite War, Rome defeated an alliance between of Samnites, Umbrians and Senone Gauls of central Italy and a group of Etruscan cities-states in the Battle of Sentinium in 295 BC. At the end of the war the Samnites, Umbrians and Senone Gauls were forced to form alliances with Rome. The Lucanians, who lived to the south of the Samnites, decided to ally with Rome. Rome left the Etruscans alone. After having defeated them several times before and weakened them, they were no longer a threat. Etruscan civilisation decayed and they were absorbed through their becoming romanised. In 290 BC Rome also fought the nearby Sabines and won after a tough fight. She gave large areas Sabine land to Roman settlers. In 268 BC the Sabines were given Roman citizenship.
The Romans conquered Gallia Cisalpina, a large area on northern Italy inhabited two Gallic peoples (the, Insubres and Boii) in 222 BC following a Gallic invasion into Etruria and attempted march on Rome. During this period, the Centomani Gauls and Veneti of north eastern Italy allied with Rome. The Taurini of north-western Italy where attacked by Hannibal during his invasion of Italy in the Second Punic War (218 BC-201 BC). After this war, they allied with Rome.
The alliances made with Rome during the initial expansion into the mountains of central and southern Italy involved protection by Rome and the allies paying a tribute to Rome and providing her with soldiers at their own expense. These soldiers fought in auxiliary units which supported the Roman legions. The system worked because the Romans supported the ruling elites of the allied peoples and the allies shared the booty of war, which could be very substantial. Rome also founded colonies (settlements) in strategic areas to strengthen their control by establishing a presence there. The colonist provided Rome with intelligence and contributed to the Romanisation of the Italic peoples. The Romans also founded colonies in conquered Gallia Cisalpina.
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Did Romans get to the south coast of England?
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