Roman Imperialism In William Morey's Outline Of Roman History

Roman Imperialism
I feel we’ve only touched on Greece’s achievements, and now it’s off to Rome! It took me a while to figure out what this week’s Discussion Post question was asking and then I saw the answer at the end of chapter ten, in William Morey’s Outlines of Roman History. What he calls, “the pacification of Latium” (1901, p. 45).
Historical Background
Following the end of the Great Latin War (340-338 BCE), Latium came under the control of Rome. Unlike Greece’s approach to the subjugated, described by Steven Kries as one that “…sought to demolish the social institutions of conquered lands and to replace them with Greek institutions,” (2009, para. 15), Rome took a different approach, one that allowed the people Rome conquered to keep their culture and language. Cities and towns were allowed to keep their administrative structures. This allowed the populace to maintain some sense of self-leadership and their history. This is the subtle start of Roman Imperialism, a policy of assimilation into the Roman “Cosmopolis” (2009).
Rome dismantled the Latin confederacy by isolating each city from other Latium cities. Individually, each city was forced into a treaty with Rome, and were not allowed to enter into alliances with others, thus loosing autonomy. Rome furthered their policy of isolationism by

Having served in U.S. Army thirty years ago, from a military point of view, I see a strategic spread of fully incorporated cities (friendlies marked in green), colonies with hostiles (marked in red), and on the coast in Antium, a colony with citizens enjoying Latin Rights. It looks deliberate to me that next to hostil Praeneste and Velitrae are cities with fully incorporated Roman citizens. Because Tibur is on a river (pun intended), having complete control makes because of commerce and strategic value. With Antium, being far from Rome would have been easier to manage with a placated