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All of the following were transformative events in the development of the Roman Republic and early Empire except: the conquest of southern Italy by Alexander the Great the three Punic Wars against Carthage the "struggle of orders" between the Patrician and Plebeian classes the crossing of the Rubicon river by Julius Caesar in 49 B.C.E.