Punic wars

• The Roman legion consisted of 5000 soldiers of highly trained elite infantrymen selected from Roman citizens
•  within the legion, there were centuries of 80
• the mounted part of the army was the calvary 
• the soldiers carried a dagger shield and armor and wore a tunic 
• Punic wars were wars between Rome and Carthage 264-146 BC
• three total wars 
• first punic war (261-241)
• Naval battles for the strategic point of Sicily
• Won by Rome
•  Second punic war (218-201 BCE
• 29 yo general Hannibal almost takes Rome 
• Attacks Rome from the north, Spain, crossed the alps 
• Lies siege to the peninsula for close to 15 years, but never gets all of the way to Rome 
• Third and final punic war (149-146)
• Rome wanted to wipe Carthage off of the face of the earth 
• Roman generals Scipio, Tiberius Gracchus, and others mercilessly attacked the city 
• Carthage burned for 17 days 
• When the war ended 50,000 of the last people were sold into slavery 
• Carthage's territories were annexed making the Roman province of Africa
• Slaves poured into Italy 50k Carthage slaves, 150K Greek Pow 
• By the end of the 2nd century, there were more than 1000000 slaves in Rome 
• Small farmers lost their land to aristocrats if couldn't pay debts because of fighting a war
• massive farms became expansive estates called latifundia
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