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What countries did the Romans conquer?
The main countries conquered were England/Wales (then known as Britannia), Spain (Hispania), France (Gaul or Gallia), Greece (Achaea), the Middle East (Judea) and the North African coastal region. In Rome's early years, the state lived in fear of its more powerful neighbour, Carthage.*** Ecological studies: widespread drought, urban collapse, and pastoral migrations. Climate change and drought may have triggered both the initial dispersal of Indo-European speakers, and the migration of Indo-Europeans from the steppes in south central Asia and India.***The Arya were central Asian Steppe pastoralists who arrived in India between roughly 2000 BCE and 1500 BCE, and brought Indo-European languages to the subcontinent.*** The most widely accepted proposal about the location of the Proto-Indo-European homeland is the steppe hypothesis, which puts the archaic, early and late PIE homeland in the Pontic–Caspian steppe around 4000 BC***By far the longest-surviving human species, Homo erectus was the first hominin ... Asia and perhaps Europe; Appearance: human-like body proportions and upright ... Disputed evidence of the very late survival of H. erectus on the Indonesian ...H. erectus fossils there date from about 1.6 million years to at least 250,000 years ago. *** Homo erectus (meaning "upright man") is an extinct species of archaic human from the Pleistocene, with its earliest occurrence about 2 million years ago, and its specimens are among the first recognisable members of the genus Homo. H. erectus was the first human ancestor to spread throughout the Old World, ... Migration into the frigid climate of Ice Age Europe may have only been ...