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The Second Punic War

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The Western Mediterranean

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Ebro Treaty (226 B.C.) _______________________________________________

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Saguntum __________________________________________________________

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Publius Cornelius Scipio / Tiberius Sempronius Longus ( cos. 218 B.C.)

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Hannibal Crossing the Rhone River (Aug. 218 B.C.)

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Hannibal Crossing the Alps (218 B.C.)

“On, on you madman… over your savage Alps” Juvenal

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Hannibal, looking down into Italy toward Rome (Sept. 218 B.C.)

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Ticinus River (218 B.C.) _____________________________________________

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Trebia River (Dec. 218 B.C.) _______________________________________

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Lex Claudia (218 B.C.) _________________________________________________________

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Gaius Flaminius / Gnaeus Servilius Geminus (cos. 217 B.C.)

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Lake Trasimene (217 B.C.) _________________________________________

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Quintus Fabius Maximus (Cunctator) ________________________________

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Cannae (216 B.C.) ___________________________________________________

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Capua ______________________________________________________________

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Marcus Claudius Marcellus __________________________________________

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Syracuse (Hieronymus) (215 – 211 B.C.) _________________________________

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Hiero __________________________________________ Hieronymus

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The Siege of Syracuse and Archimedes’ Defenses

Archimedes Planning the

Death of Archimedes Defenses of Syracuse

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First Macedonian War (Philip) (215 –205 B.C.) _______________________

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Peace of Phonice (205 B.C.) ______________________________________________

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Spain (218 – 206 B.C.) ________________________________________________

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Publius Cornelius Scipio (Africanus) (consul 205 B.C.) __________________

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The Continence of Scipio after his capture of New Carthage 209 B.C.

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Battle of Metaurus (207 B.C.)

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Hannibal seeing the head of Hasdrubal

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Massinissa ___________________________________________________________

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Sophonisba ____________________________

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Suicide of Sophonisba

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Zama (202 B.C.) ______________________________________________________

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Consequences of the Second Punic War _________________________

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Continuously hunted down by Rome , Hannibal takes his life, after being

betrayed and trapped by Roman agents in Bithynia in 183 B.C.

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Marcus Porcius Cato (the Censor) _______________________________

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“Praeterea censeo, Carthaginem delendam esse”

”In addition, I think that Carthage must be destroyed”

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Weeping as he watched Carthage burn, P. Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus, the

adopted grandson of the victor of Zama, and later called Africanus Minor, turned

to his friend Polybius, the historian and exclaimed,

“Nations have their lives, just like men: one day the hour of Rome will strike”

Destruction of Carthage 146 B.C.

According to Livy, Scipio Africanus and Hannibal, while both were in exile in Ephesus, Syria,

had a friendly conversation about their campaigns against each other. In the course of this conversation

Scipio asked Hannibal whom he considered to be the greatest general up to that time. Hannibal replied

by naming Alexander the Great. Asked again as to whom he considered the second greatest, Hannibal

answered, ”Pyrrhus”. Again asked for the third, without hesitation he replied “Hannibal”. Them Scipio

asked, ”And had you conquered me, where would you have placed yourself.” Hannibal quickly

answered, ”Above even Alexander the Great;”