Carthage War- Punic Wars How Rome destroyed the City and Carthage did not have a clue of what would happen until it was to late
Carthage was a city, which controlled all the Mediterranean trade and owned North Africa. Rome controlled the entire Italian peninsula. While expanding they met in the middle. The middle was Sicily. They began to fight over who got the island Sicily in 264 BC. No one really won. Carthage and Rome signed a treaty that let Rome have Sicily and that Carthage was to pay Rome for how much Rome wasted on the war, which was …
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…to rebuild elsewhere. Carthage flatly refused. In 146 BC Rome went into Carthage. They slowly and quietly went house to house killing all living things in them. The ones, who managed to survive, were sold as slaves. The harbor and city were demolished. Also they sown the surrounding land with salt so it was unlivable. From 264 to 146 BC they fought those three wars, which killed a lot of were called the Punic wars.
By: Andrea Wilson
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