The Punic Wars
For about a century, wars have began and ended between two civilizations, the people of Rome and the people of Carthage. These battles killed thousands of people. In the end, only one civilization came out victor. We’ve put together a summery about these massive wars. First of all, the word Punic comes from the Latin language Phoenicia. We thought you might be wondering were the word Punic came from.
First Punic War: 264-241 BC
The three wars between Rome and Carthage span lasted 246B.C. – 146B.c..
The wars began when Rome intervened to prevent Carthage, Syracuse from controlling strait of Messina. The first flares went up Sicily In the east Greek settlement. When Rome went over to Carthage the Carthage people were very angry with Rome. Rome was under Carthage control before starting a war between Rome and Carthage because they wanted to be free from Cartages control. After, they went to other places that Carthage had control. Why Rome won all of the wars were because they had more soldiers. All Carthage had was money and riches. After all the wars it was Rome how had money and riches and more soldiers.
The Second Punic War: 218-202 BC
Carthage rebuilt there empire by taking over Spain. A small town in Spain got a peace treaty from Rome and agreed to help. When the new Carthage leader, Hannibal, heard of this, he took control of the town. The Romans tried to peacefully solve the problem, but were forced to start war, but the Carthage army was larger and more powerful.
The Carthage army was advancing into Rome controlled areas. The Romans tried their best to fight, but they were no mach. Allies to Rome started to join Carthage. The Romans had to stop Hannibal. They sent eighty thousand men to Italy to fight. Amazingly, Rome lost that battle, but not the war.
The Romans went back to the strategy of waiting out Hannibal. Hannibal was starting to run low on supplies and men, but he still attacked Rome. Rome was fighting defensively and was starting to win the war.
The Romans fought back the Carthage army and took back Spain. Rome than pushed back Hannibal out of Italy, too. One battle remained. Roman allies helped Rome. The final result of the second Punic war was Rome. The Romans had become a international empire!
The Third Punic War: 149-146 BC
The Carthaginian started attacking invading neighbors but Rome was way to powerful for the Carthaginians, so Carthage lost again. Rome had riches because they had control of Carthage after the wars they went to all the Carthage places to battle with them and Rome always won against Carthage because Rome had more soldier more than Carthage.
Conclusion
We learned that Rome was a very powerful and it was a big land. Carthage we learned that Carthage were just rich. We learned Rome had many soldiers and weapons. Soon after the wars, Rome was the one with riches. We have learned a lot if things about the Punic wars. Let’s just make sure something like this doesn’t happen again