Not really, hand pumps, water wheels and concrete, technological developements of Greek or Punic ideas probably carried further by those same peoples under Roman rule.

Latium itself is not really good land for farming or raising horses. In the First Punic War the Romans were about matched by the Carthaginians and in many ways the war was really a draw. Hanabal lost because the Carthaginian Senate refused to send him extra soldiers and money to prosecute the war.