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Punic War
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Paragraph One
The Greek king Pyrrhus
_______ came to Italy to
Greek colonists. He was
help the _______
driven out of Italy by Roman troops and
Sicily
then sails to the island of ________.
The
Greeks were also being attacked by the
Carthaginians
_________________on
the island of
Carthage
Sicily. _______
Rome and __________teamed
up to defeat the Greeks and take over the
island of Sicily.
Carthaginians / Carthage / Greek / Pyrrhus / Sicily / Rome
Paragraph Two
Carthage
The alliance between ______and
________
Rome
faded because Rome felt threatened.
Sicily in order to
Both wanted control of _______
control trade on the ______________
Mediterranean
Sea. Rome set up a base of operations at
___________
while Carthage set up their
Syracuse
base of operations in _______________.
Agrigentum
war
A _____was
about to begin between
Rome and Carthage.
War / Sicily/ Syracuse / Mediterranean/ Agrigentum / Carthage/
Rome
Paragraph THREE
Over the first several months of the Punic
war______
______and
_______
battles, ______
sieges, disease,
famine
inflicted heavy losses on both Rome and
Carthage. Rome defeated Carthage in a
Agrigentum
land battle at _________________.
_____
Carthage were master ____________and
shipbuilders
Sailors
__________and
they wanted to fight
sea
Rome on the______.
Sea/ sailors/ shipbuilders/ land / famine/ disease/ battles/ sieges/
Agrigentum
Paragraph Four
corvus
• Rome invented the _________it
was a
drawbridge that allowed soldiers to fight a
land
_______like
battle on a boat. The
Romans used quinqueremes
_______________ which
was a boat with five levels of rowers.
ROME
________wins
the first Punic war.
Corvus/ quinqueremes/ Rome/ land /
• Activity 2- Short essays on the second
Punic War in complete sentences
• What is the key to success for many
military leaders?
• Describe at least three problems
Hannibal’s army had crossing the Alps.
• What did Scipio and the Roman Army do
to win the second Punic War? Explain
why Scipio’s strategy worked.
• Activity 3- The Third Punic War
• Describe the following1.Define ultimatum.
2.How did the Romans defeat Hannibal’s war
elephants?
3.The terms of the treaty that ended the second
Punic War.
4.Define Punic. 5. Write a one paragraph
summary of the third Punic War.