According to many antebellum southerners, the issue of "states' rights" revolved around their right to a) bear arms. b) own slaves. c) worship freely. d) import foreign goods.

no one really purchased it themselves, it was all america, they had debates etc.

the romans were initially interested in expansion via sicily (which at that time was a cultural melting pot), part of which lay under carthaginian control. at the start of the first punic war (264-241 bc), carthage was the dominant power of the western mediterranean, with an extensive maritime empire