Before revision: Rome expanded into the whole of Italy around the same period and then rose to prominence in the western and eastern Mediterranean through the Punic and Macedonian wars, but was then shaken by a century-long political crisis.
After revision: Rome expanded into the whole of Italy around the same period and then rose to prominence in the western and Eastern Mediterranean through the Punic and Macedonian wars, but was then shaken by a century-long political crisis.