Carthage tried hard to avoid it. Rome arranged for its Africal allies to attack Carthage, so that the Carthaginians had to defend themselves, and so were accused by Rome of breaking the peace. It was a lose-lose situation which allowed Rome to finally capture Carthage, level the city, sell the population into slavery, and establish a Roman military colony on the site.
Rome's final solution to its rival Carthage.
Third Punic War (149 to 146 BC)
Third Punic War (149 to 146 BC) .
Rome won the third Punic War. Rome won all three of the punic wars!
First Punic War - Rome defeated Carthage. Second Punic War - Rome defeated Carthage. Third Punic War - Rome defeated Carthage.
Carthage was decisively defeated by Rome in the Third Punic War .
First Punic War - 264-241 BCE Second Punic War - 218-201 BCE Third Punic War - 149-146 BCE
The First Punic War, the Second Punic War and the Third Punic War. The word Punic comes from the Latin name for the Carthaginians (punicus, plural punici).
Third Punic War.
It was in the closing stage of the Second Punic War. The Third Punic War came half a century later.
Rome fought Carthage in the First Punic War, the Second Punic War and the Third Punic War over a period of a century.
In the Second Punic War Scipio Africanus; in the Third Punic War Scipio Aemilianus.
I'm assuming that you mean the Punic war. After defeating Carthage in the third Punic war, Rome destroyed the city and symbolically scattered salt around it as a sign that it would never rise up and be a power again.