Identifier: storyofgreatestn02elli (find matches)
Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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method used is said to have been thatof placing him in a barrel filled with nails projecting inward, and rolling himabout until he died. The best authorities believe this horrible story was aninvention of the Romans to excuse their own atrocities to Carthaginian prison-ers, though it is hardly to be doubted that Regulus actually suffered deathfor his patriotic fortitude. The final victory of the Romans at the ^^gates Islands made them mastersof the situation, and led the Carthaginians to seek peace in B.C. 241. By theterms which closed the first Punic War, the Carthaginians were required toevacuate Sicily and the adjacent islands, to pay a large indemnity, and to recog-nize the independence of Hiero, king of Syracuse. The war had lasted twenty-four years, and, according to Polybius the historian, cost Carthage five hundredand Rome seven hundred galleys; but Rome had gained an immense prestigeand had taken the first step that was to win for her the proud title of Mistressof the World.
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Rome—Conquest of the Islands 327 It should be noted that that part of Sicily which was wrested from the Car-thaginians was now organized into 2iprovince, this being the commencementof the new system which Rome adopted, of the institution of provincial govern-ment in her possessions outside of Italy. An immense advantage was held byRome over Carthage from the first: <:his lay in the difference of their system orpolicy toward their conquered subjects. The Romans associated them in theirown enterprises on equal terms, not only paying for their services, but sharingthe booty obtained, and allowing them to retain their own laws, customs, andnational identity. The system, in brief, was similar in the main to that whichhas made England the greatest colonizing Power of modern times. But whilethose who fought beside the Romans were her allies, the soldiers of the Car-thaginians were simply servants who risked their lives for wages. As a con-sequence, Carthage soon became involvea in a des

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