Why was Rome easily able to conquer all of Italy?

Answer 1

Romans intermarried with the nearby tribes in Italy. Thus if you lived in Italy sooner or later a family member might be a Roman soldier or citizen. Eventually they all became one people, the Roman People.

Answer 2

Rome was very successful because of its superior military authority. That is the main influential factor that cemented Roman power for nearly a thousand years. They had several advantages - rapid development of the latest technology and vast numbers of infantry along with a stable senate system and much wealth to fuel their ambitions. It had sewers to control waste, aqueducts for Plumbing and paved roads for transport - which many other nations simply did not have

Answer 3

The Romans expanded during three wars against the Samnites who were quite a large people to the south of Rome and lived on the mountains which run through the peninsula.

During the second war, since their mountains were difficult to take, they attacked smaller mountain peoples to the north of the Samnites to reach the east coast and make alliances with cities northern Apulia (to the east of the Samnites) so as to encircle the Samnites.

After this war they turned the mentioned peoples and other peoples in central Italy into allies. The arrangement was that these peoples remained independent in exchange for supplying soldiers to support the Roman legions at their expense. The system worked because the Romans supported the local ruling classes and because the allies could share the spoils of war, which could be considerable.

In the third war Rome defeated an alliance of Samnites and peoples to the north of Rome, the Umbrians, some Etruscan cities and the Senone tribe of the Gauls. Rome won and turned the Samnites, Umbrians and Senones into allies. The Lucanians who lived south of the Samnites decided to ally with Rome because they had been attacked by the Samnites. As a result Rome became the overlord of much of central Italy and of the mountains of the south. They also controlled the rest of central Italy because, although the Etruscans did not become allies, they were weakened and were no longer a threat.

Rome gained control of the toe and heel of Italy when they won the Pyrrhic War against Pyrrhus, a Greek king who tried to invade southern Italy. Again, Rome established alliances in these areas.

The system of alliances was very advantageous to Rome. She avoided costly conquest wars, maintained friendly relations with the allied peoples and the allies greatly increased the military manpower available to her. The allies came to provide 60% of Rome's potential military pool. This level of manpower was not matched anywhere else in the Mediterranean was crucial in defeating Pyrrhus. Rome also annexed some strategic territories in in central Italy and established settlements in key locations to strengthen her control in the area.

Answer 4

Because Italy was divided in individual city-states which was easier for

Rome to invade and control.

Answer 5

Rome had the power and army