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Ancient Warfare Volume 11, Issue 2, on the cusp of Empire, the Romans Unify, Italy. But before we

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So joining me for this episode, we have Yaspiroitage, Murray D'Arm, Mark DeSantis and

Mark McCaffrey. So we're looking at the 4th century BCE. This is the early Roman Republic.

How does what we would call Italy, the Italian Peninsula, what we now call Italy,

the Italian Peninsula, look at the start of this period?

Well, strictly speaking, I should refer you to ancient warfare issue 401, which is more devoted

to all those different peoples.

But it's a great big mess really.

You have Keltsin and North, Celtic tribes, Truskins, controlling large parts of the middle section.

And Rome at the beginning of the 4th century really doesn't control directly very much of Italy yet.

Just the central Latium area.

And then there's various Italic peoples around there and to their south and further on to the south.

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