The Roman empire grows

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Q1: Who nearly stopped the Romans for taking over all of the Mediterranean lands?
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The weakest of their neighbours were the Etruscans, so the Romans defeated them first. Then Greece also became weak, and this allowed the Romans to take their lands in Italy. Rome now controlled all of Italy.

The Romans then began to conquer more lands around the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea, including Greece and Egypt. Their hardest battle was with the people of Carthage (now Tunisia, North Africa) and their leader, Hannibal, nearly beat the Romans.