VI. ROMAN REPUBLIC
(509-27 BC) (continued)
- Growth
& conquest (continued)
- Conflicts with Carthage
& the conquest of Sicily
(continued)
- Second
Punic War (218-202 BC)
- Carthage launches second war directed at Rome
- Hannibal
- Leader of Carthaginian forces
- Leads army from southern Spain across Alps
into Italy
- Defeats Roman armies
- Lake Trasimene (217 BC)
- Cannae (216 BC)
- Never manages to capture Rome itself
- Returns to Africa in 203 BC to defend Carthage
against Roman counter-attack
- Defeated by Roman general Scipio at Zama in 202 BC
- Confirms Rome's
standing as regional superpower
- Third Punic War (149-146 BC)
- Carthage re-emerges in first half of 2nd century BC as
prosperous city through successful commercial activities
- Rome suspicious of economically prosperous
Carthage
- Demands that Carthaginians abandon their city
& move inland
- When they refuse, Rome invades & destroys
Carthage
- Roman
conquest of the eastern Mediterranean
- Hellenistic states
- Macedonia
- Ptolemaic kingdom
- Seleucid
- Pergamum
- Rome & the eastern Mediterranean
- Become involved during Second Punic War
- Macedonian king (Philip V) forms alliance
with Hannibal
- Rome fights wars against Macedonia
in 214 BC & 200 BC
- Macedonia eventually becomes Roman province in 168 BC
- Greece becomes Roman province in 146 BC
- Defeat of leading city of Corinth
- Province of Asia
formed in 133 BC
- Former kingdom
of Pergamum bequeathed to Rome by last
king
- Cilicia becomes province in 101 BC
