Vol 3 Ep 27 - Ancient Rome: The Punic Wars, Part One

History of the World podcast

Chris Hasler

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🗓️ 28 June 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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264 - 219 BCE - After King Pyrrhus of Epirus left modern Italian lands, much tension existed between the societies and the eventual escalation led to the First Punic War centred in and around the island of Sicily. See what happens to the economies of two mighty powerhouses when each of them refuses to back down.

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0:00.0	This is the History of the World Podcast with me Chris Hasler and you're listening to volume 3 the
0:17.2	classical world episode 27 the Punic Wars Part 1. Oh, In the previous episode we explained that the Early Roman Republic was
0:57.5	characterized by a class conflict where the common citizens otherwise known as the Pabeans, were at odds with the Roman aristocracy,
1:07.2	officially referred to as the Patricians. The Patricians were the only members of Roman society who could ascend to the most important political
1:18.7	roles in the society.
1:22.1	And the Plobians were treated as low-class citizens with very limited rights.
1:30.0	The problem for the patricians was that they relied heavily on the plebeians for their manpower
1:36.2	and the plebeians would use this as leverage whenever they felt that they were being
1:41.5	unfairly represented.
1:44.4	As such, the Roman Republic would need to continually reform, and it may be that this willingness
1:51.5	to reform enabled the Romans to grow as a nation state
1:56.7	and entice more and more cities to willingly be amalgamated into this successful society. Not everybody in the Roman Republic was
2:07.2	wealthy but becoming Roman meant that your land was protected against local enemies.
2:14.0	And all too often you would find that your local enemies would be subjugated by the Roman
2:19.3	Republic shortly afterwards anyway. Sometimes this would be done by cooperation and
2:26.7	other times it was done by force. By the end of the 270s b.C. the Roman Republic had managed to demonstrate to the
2:36.0	Etruscan's in the north where Roman lands now were and through conquest of the
2:41.4	city states of Magna Griseia,
2:43.6	the Roman Republic occupied the entire Italian peninsula to the south of the lands of the
2:49.8	Atrusans. In order to achieve that, the Romans would need to achieve the submission of the city of Tarentum, which was allied to the Balkan state of Opirus. The Opirates under their notable King Pyrrus
3:08.6	would challenge the Romans who were getting involved in the political affairs of Magna Griseia.
3:14.7	While the Opeirates were on the Italian Peninsula, they were approached by the Syracusans of
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