But over the next few hundred years, it starts to expand. Rome is a militaristic society. The Roman legions start to exert its influence over more and more of the surrounding people on the Italian peninsula. And we keep going several hundred years until we enter into the third century BCE. And this is a map of what the Mediterranean at least looks like, roughly as we enter into that third century BCE. And you see, even though that Rome has now exerted its power over most of the Italian peninsula right over here, it was not the dominant power in the Mediterranean. It was really the upstart, the new and growing empire.