rome vs. carthage the first punic war 264-241 b.c
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Rome vs. Carthage The First Punic War 264-241 B.C. Carthage had been colonized by the Phoenicians, whom the Romans called Punici. Carthage at its height. Why Punic War?. The First Punic War was fought for control of Sicily and the western Mediterranean. Rome. Sicily. Carthage. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Rome vs. Carthage
The First Punic War
264-241 B.C.
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Carthage had been colonized
by the Phoenicians,
whom the Romans called Punici.
Carthage at its height
Why Punic War?
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The First Punic War was
fought for control of
Sicily and the western
Mediterranean.
Carthage
Rome
Sicily
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Carthage had a powerful navy. Rome did not.
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quadreme
bireme
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After capturing a Carthaginian ship, the Romans quickly built a strong Navy. During sea battles, Roman sailors shocked the Carthaginians
when they dropped gangways with sharp metal points on one end, called
corvi, (crows or ravens) onto the decks of the Carthaginian ships. These bridges held the ships together while
the Romans boarded the enemy vessels with their superior soldiers.
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The Corvus
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Hamilcar Barca was a famous leader of the Carthaginian
navy/army.
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Important battles of the First Punic War
Mylae---260 B.C. Gaius Duilius led the roman navy to its first great victory.
Drepana---249 B.C. Publius Claudius ignored the omen of the sacred chickens
and lost 93 of 123 ships.Aegates Islands---241 B.C. Lutatius
Catulus was the victorious general at this final battle of the first conflict.
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Battle of Mylae
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Marcus Atilius RegulusRegulus, a famous Roman general,
defeated the Carthaginians at the battle of Ecnomus.
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Battle of Ecnomus
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His conditions for surrender were extremely severe and harsh. In
subsequent fighting, Regulus was captured by Carthage. Later, he was sent to Rome to negotiate a prisoner exchange on the condition that if he
completed the mission unsuccessfully, he would return to Carthage for
execution.
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Regulus, a man of honor, leaves Rome and returns to Carthage to be put to death.
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Hamilcar Barca had three sons: Hannibal
Mago Hasdrubal
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Hamilcar so hated the Romans that he made his nine year old son Hannibal stand before the altar of Baal
and swear eternal hatred for the Romans.
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Hamilcar was slain in battle in Spain. Hannibal later gathered his father’s loyal troops and set out
for Italy to begin another conflict with the Romans.
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TheSecond
Punic War
Hannibal
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218-201 B.C.
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The Carthaginians attacked and took over the Spanish city of Saguntum. This was the pretext Rome used for a second
war against Carthage.
Hispania
Saguntum
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The fall of Saguntum
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The Roman Senate sent Fabius to Carthage to give the
Carthaginians a chance to avert a full scale war.
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“I carry here peace and
war; choose, men of
Carthage, which ye
will.”Q. Fabius Maximus
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After conquering Saguntum Hannibal outmaneuvered the
Romans at the Rhone River and prepared to cross the Alps.
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Hannibal’s army crossing the Rhone River.
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In order to surprise the Romans, Hannibal decided to attempt to cross the Alps in the middle of winter. He took with him 37 elephants, including his
favorite, Surus.
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When the path was blocked by a landslide, Hannibal ordered his
troops to set fires under the huge boulders and poured wine on
them to make them split in half.
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Fending off the attacks of mountain tribesmen, Hannibal
proclaimed to his troops when they
reached a promontory high in the Alps:
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“Now you are crossing not only the walls of Italy, but those of Rome.”
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Several crushing defeats were administered by Hannibal’s
soldiers as they poured down into Italy.
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Early Punic victories included a skirmish at the Ticinus River (Scipio, the Greater, saved his father’s life in this battle) and a full-scale battle at the Trebbia
river.
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The most shocking and unexpected Roman defeat, however, was at
Lake Trasimene, where the Roman army was pinned between
the lake and a mountain range. The mist rising from the water
prevented the Romans from realizing that they were heading
into an ambush.
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Hannibal’s troops massacre the Roman legionnaires
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217 B.C.
News of the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene and the death
of the consul Flaminius caused panic in the Forum.
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216 B.C.A year later at Cannae Hannibal administered one of the most crushing defeats ever suffered by a Roman army. The consular generals were
Lucius Aemilius Paulus and Gaius Terentius Varro. Paulus was killed during the fighting
and over 50,000 legionnaires were massacred.
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For the next few years after Cannae the Romans adopted
“Fabian tactics” in dealing with the enemy. Q. Fabius Maximus,
the “shield of Rome” successfully pursued his unique style of
guerrilla warfare.
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Fabius was even awarded the agnomen Cunctator, the delayer.
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In 207 the Romans defeated Hasdrubal, Hannibal’s brother, at the Battle of the
Metaurus River. Hasdrubal was decapitated and his head was rolled into the camp of Hannibal where it stopped at
Hannibal’s feet.
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Hannibal stands stupefied when the bodiless head of Hasdrubal is thrown into his camp.
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Finally P. Cornelius Scipio convinced the Senate to send a Roman force to Carthage and besiege the city in an effort to force
Hannibal to return to rescue his homeland.
Scipio
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The siege of Carthage
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On the plain of Zama, in 202 B.C., Scipio claimed the final and decisive battle of the the conflict.
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Roman legionnaires entering the
gates of Carthage.
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Hannibal was forced to flee to the east to escape death. He survived there for
several years, directing the navy of
King Perseus. Cornered in Bithynia
in 183, Hannibal poisoned himself.
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Scipio was given the agnomen Africanus to
honor his great victory over Hannibal.
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The Third Punic War149 B.C---146 B.C.
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Carthage returned to prosperity at such an alarming rate that many Romans feared the city
would once again challenge Rome.
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Cato the Elder threw figs on
the floor of the Curia, saying that they were
picked in Carthage only
three days before.
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Cato ended all his speeches
with the same warning:
Delenda est Carthago.
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Finally Rome marched on Carthage in 149 B.C. and within three years the city was
completely destroyed.
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The winning Roman general was Publius Cornelius Scipio
Aemilianus Africanus Minor
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Pater Hannibalis erat__________________.Hamilcar Barca
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Carthago erat in ___________________ Africā.
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Ubi Hannibal erat puer_______ annorum, patri dixit, “Pater, Pater, duc me tecum ad
_______________
novem
Hispaniam.