Rise of Rome: The Fall of the Samnites
The Ancients
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The Importance of Colonies in the Second Sammnight War
Colonies place, as you say, a permanent Roman presence in strategic areas. They come in various shapes and sizes of legal statuses. Sometimes they're just a few hundred people, and they park in an existing community. Other thing that colonies do is act as a vector for the spread of Roman culture. The problem with colonization is that there's been a vast sea change in how scholars understand it.
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