1. War with Carthage
By: Mitchell Mazza

2. Introduction Carthage Kart-hadast “New Town” Began founding colonies
Italy to African coast
Modern day Tunis
Kart-hadast “New Town”
Began founding colonies
northern Africa, Sardinia, Corsica, parts of Sicily, and Spain
Controlled west Mediterranean world

3. A Great Sea Power Positioned high Surrounded by walls
Richest Mediterranean city
tribute and tariffs
Traded metals
gold, silver, tin
Venture the Atlantic
Powerful fleet and army
mercenaries

4. Fighting Breaks Out
Carthage controlled half of Sicily after the Roman conquest of Italy
Rome didn’t want to lose Sicily to Carthage
Why?
Rome helped Messina against Carthage
Began the Punic Wars

5. Map of Carthage and Rome (Rome-red Carthage-purple)

6. Punic Wars Rome vs. Carthage Punic- Latin word for “Phoenician”
3 parts
60 years long
Punic- Latin word for “Phoenician”
Army was of little use to Rome
Came up with a plan...

7. Roman Ships Constructed a fleet of 140 ships
120 feet long and 14 feet wide
Five banks of oar and a bronze battering ram
Carried 300 sailors
When not in combat marines
When in battle marines

8. Roman Ships Still wasn’t enough Needed an advantage
Came up with an invention
What is it?

9. Corvus Corvus- Latin for raven
Hinged gangplanks with a sharp iron spike at the end
Hurdled javelins at the other ship
Dropped the corvus on the other ship
Warriors went across the corvus and fought the Carthaginians

10. Punic Wars

11. The First Punic War Go ROME! First Punic War began in 264 B.C.E.
Lasted 23 years
First Roman War outside of Italy
In the end Rome wins
Last sea battle was conventional
Roman adaptability
Won land battles too
Marked the emergence of a Roman navy

12. Provinces A Peace settlement was made Sicily became a Roman province
Carthage was to vacate Sicily and pay a fund
Sicily became a Roman province
Eventually gained Sardinia and Corsica
Provinces had to pay tribute
Usually a tenth of their wheat harvest
Governed by a high ranking politician

13. Enter Hannibal Carthage looked for ways to rebuild
Hamilcar Barca was a Carthaginian general
led an army to Spain
Hoped to conquer Spain
Hannibal was Hamilcar’s eldest son
He was a fearless fighter
Master of ambush tactics and blitz attacks

14. Hannibal’s route to Rome

15. Enter Hannibal
At the age of nine, he took a pledge that he would defeat the Romans
In 219 B.C.E., Hannibal broke the peace treaty
Captured the Roman trading port in Spain call Saguntum

16. Attack Route Hannibal knew he couldn’t travel by sea
Decided to go overland
This would be unexpected
Hannibal assumed that other cities would want to fight Rome
Gauls

17. Attack Route
Set out in 218 B.C.E with 60,000 men, ,000 horses, and war elephants
Created rafts to flow down the Rhone river
Elephants jumped off the boats and walked
Rafts were also built for soldiers

18. Alps The snow-capped Alps were the hardest part of the trek
People continuously lost their footing and fell and then died
There were only 23,000 of the 60,000 men left
Finally, they finished the march in 5 months

19. Video
Hannibal crosses the Alps: