The workshops of Rome are busy throughout this era creating marble copies of the vast number of bronze statues taken as spoils from the destroyed cities of Carthage and Corinth, and from Pergamon, newly bequeathed to Rome by its final king.

The First Servile War, an unsuccessful rebellion of enslaved people against the Roman Republic, is prompted by slave revolts in Enna on the island of Sicily.

It is led by Eunus, a former slave claiming to be a prophet, and Cleon, a Cilician who becomes Eunus's military commander.

After some minor battles won by the slaves, a larger Roman army arrives in Sicily and defeats the rebels.

The Lusitanian War, a twenty-year conflict between the Celtiberian tribes of Hispania Citerior and the Roman government, is the last conflict of the Celtiberian Wars fought by the Romans to subdue those people along the Ebro.

The war ends in a Roman victory and the Roman conquest of the modern Algarve and Alentejo, Portugal.