A major source of slaves had been Roman military expansion during the Republic.

That was enough to make them agents, not only historians, of the Roman expansion.

The battle ended the period of triumphant Roman expansion that had followed the end of the Civil Wars 40 years earlier.

The Germanic victory caused a limit on Roman expansion in the West.

He fights against the Roman expansion in Bohemia.

Later, this southern part of Etruria would fall prey to Roman expansion.

The wreck is dated to a period of great Roman expansion and construction.

(Roman expansion was going on in other areas as well, and would continue for more than a hundred and fifty years.)

The Samnites felt that the Roman expansion was extremely outrageous.

However, Roman expansion was delayed for some twenty years by the Second Punic War.