Message from @Emperor of Atlantis
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do your own research
lmao
ask for source
"do your own research"
so basically you have no source
and most of the people in the army wouldn't get the land because there was no land to be given
which is why they had to conquer foreign countries in the first place
to give them that land
there was steady expansion during the republic
yes, which was supported by the POPULARES
and the Optimates were largely isolationist
who said Carthago delenda est?
lmao
that's right
btfo poputard
Cato the Elder
exactly
um... Cato the Elder lived before the Gracchus brothers did
That philosophy was conservative
expanding
it started with Cato the elder, but it entered optimates thought
through the younger, the problem was internal conflicts created by rabble stymie expansion
Cato the Elder was more in favor of wiping out Carthage than colonizing it
the only reason he wanted the Third Punic War was cause he thought Carthage was a threat to Rome
there was a desire to conquer land around the mediterranean
literal Cold War boomer
to create a contiguous trade
area
that's when the term mare nostrum arose
I'm pretty sure Cato never used the term Mare Nostrum
"The term mare nostrum originally was used by Romans to refer to the Tyrrhenian Sea, following their conquest of Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica during the Punic Wars with Carthage. "
@TuerSchlossEnteiser This looks like a more futuristic delorean tbh
okay, first of all, that is never associated with Cato the Elder
it's associated with romans in general
and second that is way earlier than Cato
Cato literally appointed scipio to deploy to sicily
what is your point?