Gog Magog civil war with the west

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The empire that the romans built during the first roughly 200 years after the 2nd punic war was definitely a highly oppressive exploitative empire for the benefit of Italy-Roman elite at the expense of the provincials. it was only the passage of centuries that gradually blurred the sharp distinction between Italian Romans and provincials that inner parts of the roman empire became more like a large roman state rather than an imperial italian Rome at the center with colonial provinces all around it.