... . Hannibal was able to increase the size of his army to about 30,000 by recruiting Gauls (Verhage 2). Once he was across, he marched quickly south again and caught the Roman army by surprise. Hannibal won a resounding victory, and nothing, except the alps, stood between him and Italy. The Roman general ... was Publius Cornelius Scipio. Scipio had conquered all of Spain by 206. Hannibal was left high and dry in Italy. Scipio then crossed into Africa in 204 B.C. and continued the war on the walls of Carthage itself. This forced the Carthaginians to sue for peace with Rome. All during ... f...

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... its borders, and soon it became a vast area from the north of England across the North Sea, along the Rhine and Danube Rivers to the Caspian Sea, south to Egypt, along the coast of Africa to Spain until it became an empire. The Empire steadily grew powerful and reached its greatest might in the second century during the reign of Trajan; this ... govern the empire more effectively. Diocletian realized that Rome was too big to be controlled by just one emperor, so he divided the empire into two sections, the west and east. A senior Augustus and junior Caesar ruled each half of the empire....

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... of Caesar, forming the Commission of the Three for the Organization of the Republic on 23 November 43 B.C. Augustus ruled Rome and Spain while Antony dominated the east and Lepidus was sent off to govern Africa. Augustus by having trouble getting his supplies to Rome made an alliance with Sextus Pompeius and married a certain Scribonia, an older woman who was very difficult ... a constructive emperor; Hadrian founded cities and enhanced old and depleted ones. One of Hadrian's great works was the Hadrian's Wall, eighty miles long, dividing two tribes, the Brigantians in the south from th...

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