PUNIC WARS
Ch. 12

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction – Slides 3-4
Punic Wars Begin – Slides 5-6
Hannibal Attacks: Second Punic War – Slides 7-9
Third Punic War – Slide 10
Review – Slide 11

• During this time, Rome was still growing as a
Republic.
• Rome was threatened by another Mediterranean region.
• This region was called
Carthage.
• **ADD CARTHAGE
TO YOUR MAP**
INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION
• Carthage grew wealthy from trade.
• Carthage was Rome’s main rival at the time.
•
• The rivalry grew into a series of wars which took place throughout the next 120

• 264 BC war broke out.  1 st
Punic War
• Rome wanted island of Sicily.
 Carthage already had colonies there.
**ADD SICILY TO
YOUR MAP**
PUNIC WARS BEGIN

PUNIC WARS BEGIN
• Carthage had a strong navy.  Rome did not have a navy, only a strong army.
• Rome quickly assembled a naval fleet.  Modeled after Carthage, but invented a moveable bridge that they could use to bored another ship and fight hand to hand battle.
• Rome finally won Sicily in 241 BC and Carthage had to pay a huge fine to Rome.

Hannibal
HANNIBAL ATTACKS: SECOND
PUNIC WAR
• Carthage wanted to expand into Spain.
•  Spain had gold, silver, copper, lead, and iron as natural resources.
•  Rome did not want Carthage so close to their empire.
• Rome encouraged Spain to revolt against Carthage.
•  Carthage sent greatest general, Hannibal, to Rome.
•  Hannibal’s attack in 218 BC started the Second Punic War

HANNIBAL ATTACKS: SECOND
PUNIC WAR
• Hannibal had an army of
46,000 men and 37 elephants.
•  Sailed from Carthage to
Spain.
•  Army marched through
Gaul (present day France).
• Carthage crossed Alps to attack.
•  Cold and mountain tribes killed half of the army from
Carthage.
• **ADD GAUL AND THE
ALPS TO YOUR MAP**

Scipio
HANNIBAL ATTACKS: SECOND
PUNIC WAR
• 216 BC Hannibal defeated Romans at Battle of Cannae,
Southern Italy.
• 206 BC Roman forces, led by Scipio, captured Spain and attacked Carthage.
•  Hannibal returned to Carthage to help.
• 202 BC Scipio’s people defeated Carthage in Battle of Zama.
•  Carthage had to give up their navy and pay a large fine to Rome.
•  Spain is now Roman territory.
• Rome is now a supreme power in the Western Mediterranean.

THIRD PUNIC WAR
• Rome still considered Carthage a military threat.
• 146 BC Rome destroyed Carthage in Third Punic War.
•  Rome was also waging war in the eastern
Mediterranean at this time.
• 140s BC Greece fell completely under
Roman Rule.
• 20 years later Rome moved into Asia.

REVIEW QUESTIONS
1.
Where was Carthage located? (In what region of what continent?)
2.
Why did the First Punic War break out?
3.
How did Rome fight Carthage at sea? (What invention helped them?)
4.
Who was the great Carthage general in the Second Punic War?
5.
Why did the Second Punic War start?
6.
How did Hannibal attack in the Second Punic War?
7.
Why was the Third Punic War fought?
8.
What land/territory was gained in the First, Second, and Third Punic
Wars?
**WHEN YOU ARE DONE WITH THESE QUESTIONS, TURN THEM
IN TO ME.**