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1. The Punic Wars 264 BC -- 146 BC
The Punic Wars were wars between the Carthagins and the Romans. These wars took place in three separate times and places. The wars were called the Punic Wars because the Romans called the Carthaginians Poeni. The first of the three wars started in 246 BC, and the last of the three ended in 146 BC. The first war was 23 years long. The second war was
2. Carthage And The Punic Wars
Carthage was first founded as a trading post in the year of 814 BC. Carthage was founded by the Phoenician Princess Elyssa-Dido on a peninsula from Africa which extends into the Mediterranean Sea. According to legend Elyssa_Dido fled from her brother Pygmalion, the king of Tyre, after he killed her husband. The post benefited from the vast market
3. Hannibal 2
In 237 B.C., Hamilcar Barca took his nine year old son, Hannibal, to the alter of a Carthaginian god and made him swear that he would always be an enemy to the Romans. Hannibal and his father then left for Spain. The center of Carthaginian power in Spain was the city of New Carthage(modern Carthagena). Hannibal saw firsthand his father's techniques
4. The Aeneid
It was an early summer mourning when the ship of Aeneas washed up on the shores of Carthage, an event that would effect the queen of Carthage forever. When a love affair breaks out between Aeneas and Queen Dido the great queen has an internal conflict between passion and responsibility. This is shown through guilt, lack of confidence by her people,
5. Hannibal
, a Carthaginian general and one of the greatest generals that ever lived was renown for his strategies and courageousness, such as crossing the Alps and using the “bottleneck strategy” at Lake Trasemene. He used strategies that a lot of generals at this time, especially Roman generals, would never think of and in doing this he almost destroyed the