PUNIC WARS

FIRST PUNIC WAR

LOCATION

• Sicily

IMPORTANT EVENTS

• Rome invaded sicily
• City state asked for help, Carthage helped
• Rome was ready to sacrifice everything to win
• Rome lost 250,000 men and 500 ships
• The Romans won and gained control of sicily

RESULTS

• Romans owned Sicily

SECOND PUNIC WAR

WHERE IT TOOK PLACE

• Spain
• Northern italy
• Carthage

IMPORTANT EVENTS

• Hanibal crossed the alps
• Scipio atacked carthage

RESULTS

• Carthage was limited in the actions it could prefore as an empire
• Rome became the major power in the mediteranian.

THIRD PUNIC WAR

LOCATION

• North Africa

EVENTS

• Cato a roman senator says they should destroy carthage
• Cartage is not even a threat
• Rome destroys carthage
• Rome salted the land of carthage

RESULTS

• Everyone left in carhage was sold into slavery
• Carthage was no longer a country
• Rome ruled it's peninsula