Notes on pages 95-96

• In 250 b.c. all of Italy south of the River Po was in romans hands
• Carthage was founded about 700 b.c. by Phoenician colonist
• became a oligarchic and empire-building republic like Rome
• they wanted Sicily
• Punic wars were on sea and land
• three vious rounds
• between 264 and 146 b.c.
• first Rome was able to force Carthage out of Sicily
• second phase, Carthaginian general Hannibal invaded Italy
• they defeated Roman armies
• At the end of the Second Punic War in 202 b.c., Carthage was disarmed and helpless
• rome provoked a third war in 146 b.c.
• Carthage was captured
• the Senate ordered the city of Carthage to be leveled, its people out into slavery, and the ground on which it stood cursed
• 202 b.c. Rome had won control of the Western Mediterranean 
• Carthage was on the north end of Africa
• they had land in Egypt and Spain