Introduction

After ten years of hard fighting, the romans would force the samnites to submit in three, o four b c. The etruscans bought high on samnite power and when they did enter the war, found themselves overmatched by a newly resurgent rome. It was during these years that the romans began to radically alter the legions organization in tactics,. switching from the monkey falinx into the maneuvrable three line maniple system. After their defeat at caudin forks  the romans licked their wounds, or perhaps more accurately, nursed their egos after the defeat at caUDin forks in three, 21 b c. Five