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Hannibal did not march on Italy from Carthage. He marched from southern Spain, which his family had conquered. He marched along the eastern coast of Spain and inland from the southern coast of France. He then crossed the Alps to reach Italy. He took an army with some 58,000 men, the majority of which were cavalry, siege machines and war elephants.
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∙ 7y agoVia southern Gaul (today's France) through the Alps into northern Italy.
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∙ 6y agoHe did not start from Carthage which is in North Africa. He went from Spain to Italy in two months,
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∙ 6y agoAugust to December 218 BCE.
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How long did the war between Rome and Carthage last?
Sparta was a city-state in Greece. It had nothing to do with Rome in Italy and Carthage in Tunisia.
What advantage did Carthage have at the beginning of its first war with ancient Rome?
Carthage had several advantages at the beginning of its first war with Rome. Very importantly Carthage had a developed navy. This enabled their military to embark to what it deemed strategic places in the Mediterranean Sea. Another advantage Carthage had was control of strategic islands in the Mediterranean, namely Sardinia and Corsica. Carthage had Greek allies in Sicily, the south of the Italian peninsula, and as faraway as Corinth. Carthage had a long standing position in Western Spain as well. For the most part she was in control of shipping and land bases in the western Mediterranean Sea.
How did the defeat of Carthage give rome control of the Mediterranean?
Th effects of the rivalry between Carthage and Rome for trade control in the Mediterranean was three wars with Rome being victorious in all of them. After the second of the wars Rome effectively controlled the entire western Mediterranean.
Why did Rome engage Carthage in the Punic war in 264 bce?
The Middle East D: The Middle East The destruction of Carthage and Corinth in 146 BC is regarded as the year in which the Roman Republic began to die, thus paving the way for the Roman Empire. Carthage was Rome's main rival, and the Romans found themselves with more land than a republic could rule. Corinth was their exposure to Greek culture which they transferred to those conquered lands, including those once owned by Carthage. The Carthaginians had their own culture, and Greek culture would not have supplanted it without the defeat of Carthage by Rome.Rome fought three wars with Carthage. After the first war Rome gained control of Sicily. After the second war Rome gained control of Spain and Southern Gaul. After the third war Rome gained control of North Africa except for Egypt.Rome was still a republic at that time, not an empire.
What is the duration of Love's Long Journey?
The duration of Love's Long Journey is 1.47 hours.
How long was Carthage in siege of Rome?
Fifteen years.
How long did the war between Rome and Carthage last?
Sparta was a city-state in Greece. It had nothing to do with Rome in Italy and Carthage in Tunisia.
What were the Punic Wars how long did they last who won them?
Between Rome and Carthage over 120 years, won by Rome.
How long was the war with Carthage?
The three Punic Wars with Rome occurred over 120 years.
In 264 BC Rome began to fight Carthage which was the beginning of the long struggle know as what?
The Punic Wars.
How long does a journey take from Geneva to rome by car?
9 hours
What two countries fought in the Punic Wars?
The Romans and Carthaginian civilizations fought in the Punic wars.Addendum:They weren't really civilisations within the meaning of that word. They were two military and commercial powers contesting for control in the Western Mediterranean. Rome could be called a civilisation when it brought a long era of relative peace, prosperity and culture to the empire stretching from the Atlantic to the Euphrates. But that was two centuries later.
How long would the journey between Pisa and Rome take by train?
About 2h50
Was hannibals bold plan to invade Italy a good or bad idea?
While Hannibal's plan did allow him to bypass the Roman army and sack the city of Rome itself, Carthage did ultimate lose the war. It's impossible to know if there was anything that Hannibal could have done "better." It's entirely possible that Rome was always going to win the war no matter what Carthage did, simply because they were so much bigger and more powerful that Carthage had no chance to defeat them. The fact that they prevailed in spite of the capital being sacked certainly adds credence to that argument. One should also note that following the war the Romans destroyed Carthage completely. They did not subjugate it or add it to the empire, but wiped it out of existence. You could, again, argue that they would have done that no matter what, but you could also make the case that they destroyed Carthage because of Hannibal's attack on the city of Rome. If you take those views together, then it was certainly a bad idea, and in the long run only provoked the Romans into even greater reprisals against Carthage. Had Hannibal fought a conventional war then he would still have lost, but the Romans might not have destroyed Carthage completely after their victory.
What significant issue gave cause to the Second Punic War?
In 237 BCE Rome took the excuse of a revolt by mercenaries to seize control of Corsica and Sardinia in breach of the treaty which ended the First Punic War with Carthage. Carthage began to conquer Spain over the next seven years, but signed a treaty with Rome in 226 BCE not to go north of the Ebro River. In 220 BCE the Cartaginians captured Saguntum, which was within the Ebro limit, but Rome used this as an excuse to declare war to confront an increasingly confident and expansionary Carthage.
What advantage did Carthage have at the beginning of its first war with ancient Rome?
Carthage had several advantages at the beginning of its first war with Rome. Very importantly Carthage had a developed navy. This enabled their military to embark to what it deemed strategic places in the Mediterranean Sea. Another advantage Carthage had was control of strategic islands in the Mediterranean, namely Sardinia and Corsica. Carthage had Greek allies in Sicily, the south of the Italian peninsula, and as faraway as Corinth. Carthage had a long standing position in Western Spain as well. For the most part she was in control of shipping and land bases in the western Mediterranean Sea.
How did the defeat of Carthage give rome control of the Mediterranean?
Th effects of the rivalry between Carthage and Rome for trade control in the Mediterranean was three wars with Rome being victorious in all of them. After the second of the wars Rome effectively controlled the entire western Mediterranean.
