THE PUNIC WARS

• Lasted 264 B.C to 146 B.C
• Rome vs Carthage
• Rome won the war

THE BATTLES

• The Punic wars were split up into 3 battles
• Rome won all three
• Hannibal made a big mistake in the third war by taking all of his troops and elephants through the alps and into Rome. The mistake he made was leaving Carthage unattended so that Rome could conquer it.

THE REASON?

• What were they fighting for? The Mediterranean Sea of course, sometimes called Mare Nostrum,which is Latin for our sea.

ROMAN GENERAL-SCIPIO

• Commanded the invasion of Carthage in the 2nd Punic war and defeated Hannibal at Zama in 202 B.C

CARTHAGE GENERAL-HANNIBAL

• Led the daring attack against Rome through the alps.

HOW STRONG THEY WERE IN THE PUNIC WARS.

QUOTES

• We will either find a way or make one- Hannibal
• I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone- Scipio