western civ day fifty-one

PUNIC WARS

• 264- 146 BCE 
• Rome vs Carthage
• Three wars
• First Punic War
• 264-241 BCE
• Naval battles
• Rome wins
• Second Punic War
• 218-201 BCE
• General Hannibal (Carthage General) takes on Rome attacking from the North
• Never made it to Rome 
• Rome Wins
• Third Punic War 
• 149-146 BCE
• Carthage burned for 17 days after Rome attacked the city
• The last 50,000 people were sold into slavery 
• The rest of Carthage's territories were now named the Roman province of Africa
• They were both fighting for control
• Rome wanted to expand and then encountered the Carthaginian Empire and they had conflicts