Land+Expansion

Some causes and effects of Rome's expansion were that they were a peninsula and it was easy to go and conquer other places. They had trade routes like the silk roads they connected China to Rome. When you use the trade routes it is easier to conquer places around you. When they conquered places it was easier for them to get raw materials. Another is land expansion made Rome bigger and richer, starting the Pax Romania. Rome's large military made them almost unbeatable. Rome would conquer a city and expand by taking the minerals and making the surrendered people either join the army, make them a slave, kill them, or let them be citizens. Rome had wanted the Empire to expand for more wealth and domination. (They wanted to take over the world) One of the biggest problems with expansion was it was harder to control all of it. Soon when the empire got to big they had to split it up in two parts. The emperor decided to take the more best looking and most expensive part and gave the other part to another person.