jan 1, 200 - Romans take control of Mediterranean BCE

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Rome became the big power in the Mediterranean basin. Now, I should mention that the Romans didn’t annex any of these defeated states yet, they just charged them big fines and told them to behave. The extent of Roman Expansion up to now outside of Italy had been the acquisition of Spain from Carthage, and that’s about it. Rome was not the great empire that she would become, but, Rome had changed as a result of all of these wars, and not necessarily for the better.