Why Does Rome Conquer the Classical World?

Why does the Roman Republic conquer the entire Mediterranean (a feat that no other power has ever managed to accomplish)?

The explanations for this are legion, with generations of historians spilling a great deal of ink over the problem. An initial explanation of the unification of the Mediterranean is that the Roman Republic conquered the Classical city states in the region in order to protect them from non-Classical entities such as Carthage and Persia.

But, this isn't an adequate explanation, since Rome eventually consolidated an empire that stretched from the Sahara to Britain. All of the states of the Classical World eventually became incorporated into the Roman Empire: Sparta, Athens, Pergamum, Macedon, the list goes on. Eventually the expansion proved incompatible with democracy, and the rise of Sulla, Pompey, and Julius Caesar was the result. The civil wars unleashed by Sulla after his march on rome, and by Caesar after his gallic wars eventually led to the destruction of the Roman Republic and the foundation, under Caesar's heir Octavian (later to be the Emperor Augustus), of the Roman Empire

In this video I lay out the main ideas of historians, but, it's up to you decide if their theories are valid ones!

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Видео Why Does Rome Conquer the Classical World? канала The Historian's Craft