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Hannibal Crosses the Alps
During the Punic wars, Hannibal brought a Carthaginian army across the Alps and
invaded Italy. In his army, he had 37 elephants.
Alps
Hannibal
Punic
brilliant
homeland
Sicily
Carthage
losses
wealthy
elephants
navy
withdrew
From 264 B.C. Rome was involved in a series of
wars in the western Mediterranean with its rival,
__________. At that time, Carthage was a
__________ city with a large trading empire
and powerful __________. In the first of these
Hannibal
wars, called the __________ Wars, Rome was
victorious, destroying the Carthaginian navy and capturing the island of
__________ from the Carthaginians in 241 B.C.
The rivalry did not end there however. In 218 B.C. the Carthaginians
launched an attack on Rome. The attack was led by a __________
general named __________ who managed to lead his army of 46,000
men and 37 war __________ across the __________, a mountain
range in northern Italy.
Though his army suffered severe __________ due to hunger, cold, and
attacks as he crossed the Alps, Hannibal won victory after victory against
the Romans. Instead of defeating Hannibal in Italy, the Romans began to
attack his __________ of Carthage. Hannibal __________ his
forces from Italy and met the Roman army near Carthage where he was
finally defeated.