Think Rome and Carthage from 264 to 146. For 118 years, they fought three Punic Wars until greater Roman growth and vitality finally allowed it to dominate the Mediterranean and dictate terms on ...

Carthage was defeated in all three of these wars, which became known as the Punic Wars ... the standard and customary style for Roman soldiers at the time. This is not the first time researchers ...

The three Punic Wars between Rome and Carthage from the mid-third century ... It took some 1,500 Spanish soldiers, aided by superior weaponry and a smallpox epidemic, to defeat this inland-Venice ...

Carthage was founded in the 9th century B.C. on the Gulf of Tunis. From the 6th century onwards, it developed into a great trading empire covering much of the Mediterranean and was home to a brilliant ...

such as senatorial casualties in the Second Punic War, the Social War (a very good essay), a curious “Triumph,” the army of the late Republic, even an account of a former slave who rose to some ...