While Rome won the Second Punic War, it struck a ... would continue as long as Carthage had access to the sea through their ...

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 ...

Rome forced Carthage to surrender. But the fragile peace was short-lived: Over the next century, Rome would go on to fight a second and third war against the Punic people, winning each time.

The Roman general Scipio and Carthaginian Hannibal dueled with each other during the last years of the third century B.C., the final phase of what we now know as the Second Punic War.

The conflict between these two cities resulted in the Punic Wars with Carthage falling to Rome and having this once great region being destroyed and burned to the ground by the Roman Republic in ...