Soldiers and Silver : : Mobilizing Resources in the Age of Roman Conquest / / Michael J. Taylor.
By the middle of the second century BCE, after nearly one hundred years of warfare, Rome had exerted its control over the entire Mediterranean world, forcing the other great powers of the region—Carthage, Macedonia, Egypt, and the Seleucid empire—to submit militarily and financially. But how, despit...
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