HST2516   The Rise of Rome and its Empire (c.500-90 BCE)   (20 credits)

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This course will look at the political, cultural, and economic dimension of Roman imperialism (500 BC-90 BCE), the relevant primary sources and the current historiographical debates. Firstly, we will study the motives of Roman aggression and the causes for their success. Secondly, we will also look at the ways in which the Romans understood and conceptualised their imperial practices. Thirdly, we will consider the role of the other Italian peoples in the Roman imperial project, and how the peninsula underwent processes of integration and cultural change that was instrumental to, but not necessarily bound with, Roman imperial expansion.

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