This chapter describes the phases in which the Romans:

1. ✴extended their hegemony over the whole of peninsular Italy over some three centuries from ca. 500 BC; and
   

2. ✴incorporated the conquered peoples and their territories into the Roman state.
   

Rome and the Latins (509- 499/6 BC)

Wars with the Volsci and the Aequi (509 - 390 BC)

War with Veii  (483 - 474 BC) and War with Veii and Fidenae (438 - 426 BC)

Third Veientine War (406 - 396 BC) to the Sack of Rome (390 BC)

1. M. Furius Camillus (403 - 366 BC)
   

2. Etruscan Federation and Fanum Voltumnae (431 - 389 BC)
   

Sack of Rome (390 BC)

Sack of Rome to Renewal of Peace with the Latins (390 - 358 BC)

Renewed Latin Peace to Start of 1st Samnite War (358 - 343 BC)

First Samnite War (343 - 341 BC)

Second Latin War (341 - 338 BC)   

Second and Third Samnite Wars (326 - 290 BC)

Rome and its Neigbours Between the 2nd Latin and the 2nd Samnite War (337 - 328 BC)

Rome and Magna Graecia Between the 2nd Latin and the 2nd Samnite War (337 - 328 BC)

Second Samnite War I (328 - 321 BC)   

Second Samnite War II: Caudine Peace  (320 - 316 BC)

Second Samnite War III (315  - 312 BC)

Second Samnite War IV (311 - 304 BC)

War in Etruria and Umbria (311 - 308 BC)

Between 2nd and 3rd Samnite Wars (304 -298 BC)

Third Samnite War (298 - 290 BC)

Final Conquest of Peninsular Italy

Conquest of the Sabines (290 BC)      

Wars in Gaul and Etrurua (283 - 1 BC)    

Wars in Southern Italy (283 - 1 BC)        

King Pyrrhus in Italy (280 - 275 BC)

Expulsion of Pyrrhus (275 BC) to the Destruction of Volsinii (264 BC)

Political Settlements in Etruria (396 - 265 BC)

Aftermath of the First Punic War (214 BC)