punic wars|punic war in English

noun

three wars between Carthage and Rome (that took place between 264-241B.C., 218-201B.C. and 149-146 B.C.) which resulted in the complete destruction of Carthage

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1. The Punic Wars were a series of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage.

2. Roman general in the Second Punic War.

3. The Apollinarian Games were instituted during the second Punic war.

4. The Third Punic War ended Carthage's independent existence.

5. After the Second Punic War, there were obvious changes in Roman economy.

6. The Servian Wall was formidable enough to repel Hannibal during the Second Punic War.

7. He's a guy with Punic faith.

8. But even as early as the Punic Wars the sense of citizenship was being undermined by the growth of wealth and slavery.

9. The statesman Cato brandished a fig to convince the Roman Senate to embark on the Third Punic War, against Carthage.

10. Despite mutual admiration, negotiations floundered due to Roman allegations of "Punic Faith," referring to the breach of protocols that ended the First Punic War by the Carthaginian attack on Saguntum, and a Carthaginan attack on a stranded Roman fleet.

11. The Romans destroyed Carthage at the end of the Third Punic War, but then rebuilt it as a new Carthage.

12. The main Punic army started to cross the 1000 yard wide river.

13. In a few short months,(Sentencedict.com) and the rapid reconstruction of the naval first Punic defeat.

14. The Punic army had lost 75% of its starting strength during the journey to Italy.

15. The variants of Maghrebi derja have a significant Berber, Latin and possibly Neo-Punic substratum.

16. Archimedes has also been credited with improving the power and accuracy of the catapult, and with inventing the odometer during the First Punic War.

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18. Punic faith; the perfidious Judas; the fiercest and most treacherous of foes; treacherous intrigues.

19. Model of the "Corvus" by Martin Lokaj During the First Punic War (264-241), the Romans for the first time faced a naval power, Carthage

20. After their defeat in the First Punic War, Carthage was overwhelmed by the loss of important markets and by the tribute it had to pay Rome as compensation for the war.

21. The Roman conquest of Corsica began in 259 BC, when Lucius Cornelius Scipio captured Aleria (Greek 'Alalia') and several Corsican tribes, in the course of the First Punic War.

22. The Rome's leagues was invited to intervent Sicily by the mercenaries in 2 BC, force Syracus to make alliance with Rome to defeat Carthages in the 1st Punic War.

23. Both entered epic foreign struggles to protect weak allies from threatening aggressors (for Rome, the Punic Wars with Carthage, 264 BC–146 BC; for America, the struggle to save Europe, 1918–19.

24. Experience their legacy in Phoenician settlements, Punic cities, Greek temples, Roman amphitheatres, Norman Arab castles and Aragonese churches.

25. The later stage of Rome here refers to the period from the later period of Rome republic (approximately from the second Punic War) to the destruction of the Empire Rome.