 Countries, officials have dealing with territorial disputes, held talks in Manila earlier this month. I'm Christina Onestad. Good day and welcome to Letters and Politics. I'm Mitch Cesarich. Today we present part two of a two-part series on the rise and fall of the ancient Roman Republic. Yesterday we learned about the rise of the Roman Republic as a military force throughout the known Mediterranean world. This resulted in great wealth for Rome, but that wealth was unequally distributed.