Which of the following statements best describes rome's expansion into the mediterranean region?

a. hannibal forced thousands of romans into slavery after his victory in the second punic war. he then forced those slaves to migrate to distant areas of the mediterranean region.
b. octavian took power as provided for in the twelve tables and led military campaigns that conquered all of the important mediterranean civilizations. octavian then expanded rome's trade with those civilizations.
c. following its victories in the punic wars, rome launched a series of wars. rome's role in mediterranean trade expanded significantly as a result of those military campaigns.
d. rome embarked on a military campaign to expand its sphere of influence after defeating hannibal in the second punic war. that military campaign began the period called pax romana.

The correct answer is C, as the statement that best describes Rome's expansion into the Mediterranean region is that following its victories in the Punic Wars, Rome launched a series of wars. Rome's role in Mediterranean trade expanded significantly as a result of those military campaigns.

After defeating Carthage, Rome attacked other countries such as Syria and Macedon, beating both of them, and taking their Mediterranean territories. This was the way that Rome expanded across the Mediterranean sea.

the exact role and status of women in the roman world, and indeed in most ancient societies, has often been obscured by the biases of both ancient male writers and 19-20th century ce male scholars, a situation only relatively recently redressed by modern scholarship which has sought to more objectively assess women's status, rights, duties, representation in the arts, and daily lives; and all this from almost exclusively male source material dealing with a male-dominated roman world.

women in mythology

unlike some other ancient cultures such as the greeks who had formed a creation myth where woman was a creature secondary to man and, more specifically, in the form of pandora, a bringer of unhappiness and vices, the romans had a more neutral approach where humanity, and not specifically the male, was created by the gods from earth and water. ovid's metamorphoses, for example, does not specify whether the first human was a man or a woman. at least in a physical sense then men and women were not regarded as belonging to a different species as in the greek world, a view often reiterated in roman medical treatises.