Class discussion and Video

The last thing we left off with yesterday was the brothers and the people not wanting the senate to attack them. The conflict was between the big Roman Empire, and the Carthage Empire. Carthage had become oligarchic, about 700 B.C. It had become a republic. The Carthage had interest in Sicily, which is what caused the conflict as well. The command of the whole western Mediterranean  was the big demand. In the first days Rome forced Carthage out of Sicily. But Carthage kept the rest of their empire. In the second war, the Carthage general (Hannibal)  invaded Italy, he almost won, but the loyalty and the greater man power Rome gathered more people to fight and enabled Carthage to win. Rome feared a Carthagenan Rival and Rome started the fight this time, Romans went to Carthage and they destroyed everything. The people were to be sold into slavery and the empire to be destroyed. And this was the last and final third Punic War.