It main strength at the beginning of the Punic Wars against Rome was it's navy. When Rome developed it's own navy, the Carthaginians recruited it's army from Spain, North Africa and northern Italy, with a strong cavalry arm.

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.

The Third Punic war was the only instance of Rome having the destruction of an enemy and the obliteration of a state as her war aim. Rome did destroy other cities in some of her wars. However, this was an outcome of military engagement and was not part of the initial war aim. Moreover, they did not involve the destruction of an enemy state. For example, the Romans destroyed Jerusalem after a long siege. However, this was not the initial intention and did not involve the destruction of the whole of Judea.

There was a similarity with Corinth. Rome destroyed Corinth, which was one of the cities of the Achaean League (an alliance of Greek city-states in southern Greece) which fought Rome. Both cities were destroyed in the same year (146 BC). Julius Caesar ordered the rebuilding of both cities as Roman colonies in 44 BC. However, again, destruction had not been the war aim in the case of Corinth.

The destruction of Carthage was advocated by a war party which won the day in Rome's politics. Their advocates argued that Carthage returned to prosperity and that there was a danger that she might rebuild her military might. This was not the case. Despite peace terms imposed by Rome after the Second Punic War which were meant to be economically crippling, Carthage did well. Her land was very fertile. It was one of the breadbaskets of the Mediterranean. Moreover, with the demilitarisation imposed by Rome she saved enormous amounts of money by not incurring military expenses. Later Carthage levied a military force to fend off attacks by her Numidian neighbours. However, she would not have been able to be a match for Rome's military prowess ever again. This policy was driven by resentment and fear due to the tens of thousands of Roman and Italian allies who lost their lives when Hannibal invaded. Carthage was destroyed and the 50,000 survivors of the siege were sold into slavery.

There being a Senator who said Carthage must be destroyed was just propaganda.

Tunis in Tunisia, although the empire spread across the Mediterranean to Southern Spain and Italy

Carthage had to give up Spain, Sicily and parts of North Africa among other Mediterranean holdings.

Carthage had to give up Spain, Sicily and parts of North Africa among other Mediterranean holdings.

Carthage had to give up Spain, Sicily and parts of North Africa among other Mediterranean holdings.

Carthage had to give up Spain, Sicily and parts of North Africa among other Mediterranean holdings.

Carthage had to give up Spain, Sicily and parts of North Africa among other Mediterranean holdings.

Carthage had to give up Spain, Sicily and parts of North Africa among other Mediterranean holdings.

Carthage had to give up Spain, Sicily and parts of North Africa among other Mediterranean holdings.

Carthage had to give up Spain, Sicily and parts of North Africa among other Mediterranean holdings.

Carthage had to give up Spain, Sicily and parts of North Africa among other Mediterranean holdings.

By becoming a naval power to match the Carthaginians, by developing superior land power, and by establishing allies.

Rome had already established allies when she expanded into Italy before the three Punic Wars with Carthage. She had forced the peoples she had defeated into military alliances in which they had to provide soldiers for the Romans at their own expense. This had boosted Rome's military power long before the mentioned wars.

In the Frist Punic war Rome, first the first time, built a large military fleet which matched the Carthaginian one in size, but not in quality of shipbuilding and skills of the rowers. Carthage and their Phoenician motherland had been a major naval power (both merchant and military) for a long time and their shipbuilding and naval skills were second to none. The Romans were inexperienced. What made the final difference was that when both the Carthaginian and Roman states were financially exhausted and could not afford a new fleet, rich Roman citizens paid for a new fleet. This fleet won the last naval battle and destroyed the last Carthaginian fleet. Rome had control of the sea and Carthage had to sue for peace.

In the Second Punic War the land power of Hannibal, the Carthaginian general, was actually far superior to that of the Romans. He fought a campaign in Italy and utterly routed the Roman armies in a number of battles, causing the death of hundreds of thousands of Roman and allied soldiers. What tipped the balance in favour of Rome were four main factors:

1) The Romans adopted a strategy of attrition which involved avoiding open battle and trying to wear Hannibal down by harassing his through guerrilla tactics. This caused Hannibal's war effort to get bogged down in southern Italy, far from Rome.

2) Hannibal had lost his siege machines when he crossed the Alps to reach Italy. Without this he could not attack Rome. His brother Hasdrubal tried to bring siege machines and reinforcements from Spain, but he was intercepted and his army was routed before he linked up with Hannibal. Not receiving the siege machines was the beginning of the end for Hannibal.

3) At this point the Carthaginian senate refused to support Hannibal and to send him supplies or reinforcements. Many people in Carthage were against the war.

4) The Romans found in Scipio Africanus a general who could match Hannibal's military genius. He defeated the Carthaginians in Spain in the battle of Ilipa. Spain fell under the Romans, depriving the Carthaginians with their main source of wealth (from silver mines) and with the supply of the bulk of their soldiers (who were recruited in Spain) and meant that Hannibal could not receive help from Spain. Scipio Africanus then landed in Africa to attack Carthage and defeated Hannibal in the battle of Zama.

In the Third Punic War Rome declared war to destroy Carthage. Carthage had been demilitarised under the terms of the peace treaty. When Carthage finished to pay the war indemnities after 50 years, she considered herself free from the treaty and raised an army to fight the raids by the neighbouring Numidian kingdom. Rome was worried about a resurgence of Carthaginian military power. It was easy for Rome to defeat and destroy Carthage because she had lost all her possessions in the western Mediterranean and she was confined to her original lands in northern Tunisia

Carthage did not dominate the Mediterranean. Her trading network was in the western basin of this sea. Trade in the eastern Mediterranean was dominated by the Greeks and her Phoenician cousins. In the western Mediterranean Carthage's hegemony was in the southern part: the North African coast from northern Morocco to western Libya (Tripolitania), southern Spain, Ibiza, Western Sicily and Sardinia. Trade in the northern part (the coast of France and Spain's eastern coast) was controlled by Greek cities headed by Massalia (Marseille). Trade in Eastern Sicily and southern Italy was controlled by the Greek cities there, especially Syracuse, the most powerful city in Sicily (eastern and southern Sicily were Greek). Trade on the coast of central Italy was shared between the Etruscans, the Greeks and Carthage.

Carthage may have dominated the western Mediterranean in the early days, but there is very little historical record for this period. The expansion of the Greeks into the western Mediterranean led to the situation described above. Carthage developed as a military power from about 550 BC. She fought a war against Massalia in the 530s BC and three Sicilian Wars against the Greeks in Sicily (480 BC, 410-340 BC, and 315-307 BC) but more of these changed the described balance. A combined Carthaginian and Etruscan fleet (the Etruscans became allies at this time) defeated a Greek fleet off the coast of Corsica sometime between 540 and 535 BC. The allies agreed that Corsica was to become Etruscan and Sardinia Carthaginian. This was the only significant gain Carthage made. She lost Sardinia, Corsica (she had gained this island with the decline of the Etruscans) and her possessions in western Sicily at the end of the Frist Punic War (241 BC). She lost her possessions in southern Spain and her allies in Algeria at the end of the Second Punic War (202 BC). She was destroyed in the Third Punic War.

A Carthaginian is a native of ancient Carthage. Carthage was founded by the Phoenicians and grew into an empire on its own, with territories in Africa, Sicily, and Spain. After Rome won the Punic Wars it absorbed all of Carthage's territories.

There is not much of a "Carthaginian" Carthage legacy. Carthage was destroyed in 146 BC by the Romans in the Third Punic War. it was rebuilt 150-200 years later as a Roman town and became the second largest Roman city in the western part of the Roman Empire and one of the seven largest ones in the whole empire. There is a legacy of Roman Carthage and the Roman province of Africa (today's Tunisia, western Libya and part of eastern Algeria). This was the area where Latin of western Christianity originated. This became the main form of Christianity in the western part of the Roman Empire, while the main one in the eastern part was Greek or Eastern Christianity. Later these two churches came to be called Catholic and Orthodox respectively.

Carthage was in modern day Tunisia. She had territories in western Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica and the Balearic Islands. Carthage also had colonies (settlements) in North Africa, from western Libya to northern Morocco, and in southern Spain. The Carthaginian Empire was primarily a trading empire which was centred on the tin and silver mines of southern Spain. Carthage sold the tin and silver to the Greeks and the Phoenicians (who lived in present day Lebanon) in the eastern Mediterranean and imported quality manufactures from this area. She also sold locally made lowed quality manufactures in the western Mediterranean; to her colonies, other Phoenician colonies and the local peoples.

Carthage was a Phoenician city founded by political refugees from Tyre, the main Phoenician city.

1 punic war-Rome and carthage both wanted the islands between them for trade..so carthrage and rome fought for 23 years over them (carthage was more powerful so they were winning in sea battles)...but then rome invented the "raven".A claw attached to their ships to hook to the carthegean ships and make a bridge..therefore the romans would board and take over carthragean ships.So rome won.2punic war - A guy named hannibal wanted to get revenge on rome..so he takes the land route to get there with his elephants and his army..but they stop in spain for 4 year..and while they are in spain rome attacks their defencless city and absolutly destroys it taking their villagers as slaves.3 punic war-carthrage still wants revenge but rome surrounds their city with boats and armys..leaving the city to die of starvation and diesease..THE END...also im 99% percent sure all these facts are right but their are many more details to include if u were writing an essay.Thank you.

well i dont know but i know they ahd lots of battels woth the romas.

The exiled Carthaginian war leader Hannibal successfully crossed the Alps and invaded the Italian peninsula from the north. Though most of his army died during the passage, he succeeded in establishing a foothold in the heartland of the Roman Empire.

Both Rome and Carthage were geographically located in the Mediterranean and competed for commercial interests throughout the area with Carthage ultimately losing the struggle to Rome .

Hannibal commanded the Carthaginian army in the wars with Rome.

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It destroyed the city and sold the people into slavery to end its rivalry for once and all. It then had priests symbolically sprinkle salt on a short furrow of a plough to declare that the Carthaginians were ended. The story of salting the land is a silly wild exaggeration - the cost of scarce salt was prohibitive, and the Romans soon established a colony of retired army veterans on the land.

Rome and Carthage became mortal enemies for the same reasons that most all of the ancient world were enemies---power. Whoever had the most power controlled the trade and resources of the area.
Over dominance of the Western Mediterranean.

Hannibal, a famous Carthaginian general, crossed the Alps and almost wiped out the Romans. The Romans were on the verge of defeat until the Roman army reached Carthage's capital. Hannibal's troops rushed home, where they were defeated at Zama, ending the Second Punic War.

Second Punic War

Hamilcar Barca was one of the famous generals. He led the Carthaginian army in the first Punic War till 241 BC.

His son was also a famous general, as he led the Cartaginians aganst Rome in the second Punic War. He led his army through Spain and crossed the Alps (with his 70 elephants), he won a lot of victories over the Romans but failed to capture Rome itself. In the end , he was defeated at Zama (Africa, 202 BC).

Hannibal Barca.

It was a trading empire in the Western Mediterranean.