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    made 50 years prior, and that the Romans having a firm conviction that the Carthaginians had broken it. The most incredible war of ancient times was Hannibal Barca, considered Rome’s greatest enemy. Hannibal was the son of the commander Hamilcar Barca, a prominent military leader in the first of the three ancient conflicts. As a young boy, Hannibal swore

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    English II 1 April 2017 The three Punic Wars demonstrated the Roman emperors’ power over Rome with laws over land, environment, and conflicts. In The three Punic Wars Carthage and Rome fought for power over Mediterranean Sea. Carthage was lead by hannibal. The first Punic War was in 264 BC when Rome and Carthage wanted power to rule Sicily. The wars started when when Mercenary soldiers surrounded the city of Messena which is now Messina in Sicily and requested aid from Rome and Carthage against Hiero

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    Rome’s Ingenious Plan: Semi-citizenship From 218-202 BCE, Hannibal attacked Rome in the Second Punic War, winning nearly every battle he fought; Hannibal was triumphant throughout most of the war. However, Rome was still able to win the Second Punic War due to its ingenious plan, semi-citizenship. During the war Rome lost many soldiers, but bounced back stronger than ever and won the war against Carthage and Hannibal. Rome was able to recover extremely quickly as a result of its semi-citizenship

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    The Punic Wars

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    The Punic Wars were made of three major wars. The last war was kind of a punishment for Carthage from Rome. The two powers in these wars were Rome and Carthage. Rome was controlling the main peninsula of Italy while Carthage was controlling the islands and trade of the Mediterranean. Rome and Carthage were once on a friendly term until things went south well. The Punic Wars have major historical content that involve both leaders on opposite side as well as the battles among the two city-states. These

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    Hannibal Barca was born in 247 BC to the great Carthaginian general Hamilcar Barca and a mother native to Spain. He was born during the First Punic War between Carthage and Rome. When he was six years old, Carthage lost the war, and Rome forced Carthage to pay large amount of money; they were also forced to give up their entire navy, save a few dozen trade vessels. After Hamilcar’s loss, he took Hannibal and his Carthaginian army to Spain to secure more land and money for Carthage. In Spain, Hamilcar

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    the minor players?   This essay will what were the major factors that led to clashes between Rome and the Hellenistic kingdom, down to 146 B.C. A brief history of Rome’s increasing involvement in the Hellenistic area starting with its wars with Hannibal of Carthage and how the Hellenistic Kingdoms of Antigonids, the Seleucids and the Ptolemies and several other minor powers in the area came to be after the death of Alexander. The essay will focus on the

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    Hannibal– Famous Military Commander of the Carthaginian Army Hannibal Barca was the greatest military strategist and army general of his time. He was born in 247 B.C.E. into a military family in Carthage, which is today known as Tunis, in the country of Tunisia. He led the military forces of Carthage in battles against Rome during the Second Punic War. His most famous achievement was leading the Carthaginian army, along with forty elephants, across the Alps to attack Rome. Carthage is located

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    Hannibal was born in 247BCE, he was the son of a Carthaginian general named Hamilcar Barcareerred, who rallied his North African nation-state from defeat in the First Punic War (264–241 BC) to conquer much of Iberia. Hannibal grew up in military service, and following the 221 BC assassination of his brother-in-law Hasdrubal, who had replaced Hamilcar, Hannibal took charge of the Carthaginian army. He soon proved a brilliant field commander who applied his intellect and martial skills to the singular

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    The responsibility for the Punic wars greatly shifts from one to the next as both Rome and Carthage were Superpowers in their own right and it was inevitable that there would be a collision and subsequent reaction from any action taken. This exhausting conflict was, according to Caven, a ‘contest in three rounds’ in which the Romans fought first for control of Sicily, then for the leadership of the western Mediterranean and finally to determine the survival or extinction of Carthage. By 270

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    Causes Of The Punic Wars

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    The Punic Wars were a series of conflicts between Rome and Carthage for control of the Mediterranean. They are called the Punic Wars because the word “Punic” is derived from the Roman word for Phoenician, in reference to the Carthaginians’ ancestry. Carthage was founded by settlers from Phoenicia on the fertile land of North Africa. The Phoenicians were known as brave and skillful sailors and merchants. By the third century BC, Carthage became a substantially strong power of the Western Mediterranean

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