- Rome placed loyal, Latin speaking citizens and colonies in strategic areas throughout Italy to promote a Roman way of living and thinking.

- Rome offered different classes of citizenship to the people of the allied or conquered towns. One class of citizenship offered full voting privileges and an opportunity for the man or his descendents to gain a magistracy or membership in the Roman senate.

- The Latin War (340-338 BC) was quickly decided in Rome's favour. Virtually all of Latium was given Roman citizenship and became Roman territory, but the towns retained their local governments.

- The large states of Praeneste and Tibur maintained somewhat of an independence by becoming Rome's military allies.

- The Latin League was abolished; but the legal rights that the Latins had enjoyed among themselves were retained by Rome as a legal status, the Latin right (ius Latii), and used for centuries as an intermediate step between non-Roman status and full Roman citizenship.