The Expansion of America and The Roman Empire How the expansion of the United States relates to the expansion of the Roman Empire, and why the U.S. should be cautious with its next purchase. By Pete Krahe and a little by Zack Pelczar
The U.S. Expansion
The First Expansion The U.S. receives land from Britain The land stretches from the Mississippi to the East coast.
Louisiana Purchase U.S. buys land from France that was called the Louisiana Purchase.
We Take A Great State U.S. gets Florida
Huge Expansion Comes About US buys the Oregon Purchase, and takes Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and California
The Finishing Touches U.S. gets Alaska from Canada U.S. gets Hawaii The U.S. declare all of their main land states, not territories.
The Roman Empire Expansion
Huge Expansion By 270 BC the Roman Empire took Almost all of Italy. The Empire is colored in pink.
Rome Takes All Of Italy In 220 BC, the Roman Empire controlled all of Italy, including some islands off of its coast.
The Punic Wars Carthage tried to take the Roman Empire, but lost the war and surrendered its land in 208 BC
A Huge Expansion By 52 BC, the Roman Empire expansion had retrieved almost all of its land, taking Gaul, Hispania, Northern Africa, and some of Asia. Pink and orange.
More Africa And Asia By 25 BC, the Roman Empire controlled a large portion of the northern coast of Africa, and lots of Asia Minor. Pink and orange again.
The Greatest Extent The Roman Empire’s final expansion occurred by conquering east of Greace, Britain, and taking complete control of all its land. Pink
Similar Footsteps The immigrants that came into the Roman Empire factored towards the decline, similar to our country.