In -290 they moved against the Shamnites and continued south to conquer the cities of Greater Greece. In -280 they fought with the King of Epirus Pyrros, who invaded Italy to protect the Greek colonies. Pyrros was winning battles but he lost so many soldiers that eventually failed, the subjugation of the Greek regions of Lower Italy was completed in -270. Until -260 Rome conquered all the cities of Italy and built the Appia Street to unite the country, a large racetrack for chariot races and many mechanical constructions such as ultra-modern for that time aqueduct.
In -197 Rome defeated the Macedonians in Cynoscephalae and it was such the Roman’s fury and the way they treated the captives that in besieged towns the men killed all their women and children to escape the Romans' martyrs. In -179 the Macedonians, along with Epirus and Illyria, tried to oppose the Romans but with no effect.
In -168 Macedonian army was destroyed in Pydna and Epirus was deserted as 200,000 inhabitants were sold as slaves. In -146 the Achaean union (Corinth, Orchomenos, Argos) declared their independence, Rome sent a big army and occupied the bastion of the alliance, Corinth. Wishing to give a lesson to the other Greek cities, the Romans slaughtered all men and sold all women and children as slaves, having raped the women first in such a way that many had die during their torture. After that, Greece became a Roman province.
Along with their expansionist wars in Italy and Greece, the Romans also conducted three wars with the Carthusian Empire from -264 until -146. During the First war, Carthage was the superpower with a giant sea empire while Rome was an emerging force without a fleet. At the end of the confrontations, after a hundred years and many thousands of losses, Rome dissolved the Carthusian Empire, burned down its capital and killed everyone who did not enslave, so it prevailed as the strongest state in the Western Mediterranean.
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