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Name__________________________________ Period__________ Date__________________
Complete the chart showing the causes and outcomes of each
war.
The Punic Wars
Causes
First Punic
War
Second
Punic War
Third Punic
War
Results
Name__________________________________ Period__________ Date__________________
Complete the chart showing the causes and outcomes of each
war.
The Punic Wars
Causes
 Carthage was afraid
Rome would take
Sicily
First Punic
War
Second
Punic War
 Rome was afraid
Carthage would
close the Adriatic
Sea and the Strait of
Messina
 Hannibal wanted
revenge and to
attack the Romans in
Italy
 He attacked
Saguntum, a city in
Spain that was a
Roman ally, in order
to draw the Romans
into war and then
crossed the Alps and
invaded Italy
Results
 Romans won the
war and took Sicily
 Carthage asked for
peace and had to
pay indemnity (a
fine) as well as give
up control of Sicily
 The Romans under
Scipio attacked
Carthage
 Carthage
surrendered and
asked for peace
 Paid an indemnity
and lost the Spanish
colonies
 Rome became the
only dominant
power in the Med
Sea
 Some Romans still
feared Carthage
and passionately
hated it
Third Punic
War
 Roman leaders
began to antagonize
Carthage in order to
provoke another war
 Rome declared war
when Carthaginians
fought back against
the Numidians who
had been attacking
them
 Carthage was
destroyed and its
people killed or
enslaved
 The city and
surrounding land
were burnt and salt
was sowed into the
land
 Led to free
expansion of the
Roman Empire and
establishment of the
“Roman Lake”