Why was Rome able to conquer a vast empire?
Rome at first never intended to conquer half of the known world. At first rome was an average town of the peninsula. It started by conquering nearby towns and villages whom they were fighting with because of wanting to control merchant roads, fertile land atc. They were disciplinary as an army with strict rules and a hard way of military life. The army did not afford itself to get lazy. In 3rd century BC Italy was conquerd. No Italic nation stood a chance against ruthless and hardcore armies of Rome. Then came the Punic wars of Carthage. By the end of that war in 146 BC Rome did what she intended – Rome became the master of the Mediterranean. They won the city of Carthage near modern Tunis, defeated the guerilic but weak barbarian armies of Hispania, subduced ununited Illyrian tribes as well as the unprepared Greeks ununited from the times of Alexanader the Great. Then came the cities of Asiana an so on. The reason Rome managed to conquer such teritories was that where ever Rome arrive
