Rome engaged in military and diplomatic expansionistic state
behavior, which we now describe as 'imperialism,' since well before
the appearance of ancient sources describing this activity. Over
the course of at least 800 years, the Romans established and
maintained a Mediterranean-wide empire from Spain to Syria (and
sometimes farther east) and from the North Sea to North Africa. How
and why they did this is a perennial source of scholarly
controversy. Earlier debates over whether Rome was an aggressive or
defensive imperial state have progressed to theoretically-informed
discussions of the extent to which system-level or discursive
pressures shaped the Roman Empire. Roman imperialism studies now
encompass such ancillary subfields as Roman frontier studies and
Romanization.
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