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1184 BCE
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• Civil war in Messina (Sicily)
casus belli
First Punic War (264-241)
• Rome invests in fleet
– quinqueremes
– corvus
• Spain under Carthaginian
control
Hannibal Barca
• son of Hamilcar
• born 247 BC
• At age 9, he
makes an oath,
swearing his
undying hatred
of Rome
Second Punic War 218-201
• Hamilcar dies 237
• 221, Hannibal, age
26, top general
• Spain (then Italy)
October, 218 BCE
• Hannibal crosses into
Italy
– 80,000 infantry
– 12,000 cavalry
– elephants
• Subdues Celts in Po
River valley
Leaves Hanno + 10K troops,
1K cavalry
Ticinus River
218
P. Cornelius Scipio wounded
Romans withdraw
Trebia River
December, 218
Scipio’s legions + Sempronius
Major loss: 15-20K
Lake Trasimene
April, 217
new cos. Flaminius
Hannibal ambushes; 15K
Romans dead
Cannae
216
cos. Varro & Paulus
60K Romans dead
Vietnam (1957-1973)
58,000
208
• P. Cornelius Scipio (the
Younger)
• Hasdrubal crosses Alps
into Italy
• Metaurus R.: Hasdrubal
+ 20K dead
206
• Romans defeat
Carthaginians in Spain
• Hannibal in Italy
• Scipio plans invasion of
Africa
Zama
• 20K Carth. Dead; 20K
slavery; Romans: 500 dead
• 202: Hannibal defeated
– all territory but city
– all warships, elephants
– $$$ (10,000 talents)
– no war w/o Roman consent
• P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus
Farms, etc. devastated
300,000 dead Romans
16 years in Italy