Rome carried out three wars over 120 years, defeating Carthage in each one.
The first they learnt to match Carthaginian sea-supremacy.
After the second they imposed a crippling 50-year financial indemnity to restrich its ability to have and effective force as Carthage relied on mercenary soldiers.
Carthaginians were such good traders they had the indemnity covered withinin ten years, raising fears in Rome, which used its North African allies to harras the city.
Eventually war broke out again, and Rome decided to end the problem by destroying the city and selling its people into slavery.
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They Defeated them & Rome won ; Carthage had to pay many taxes also would have controled the Carthage. They would have supply them with power !
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By defeating them in battle in three wars.
They developed a tactic of closing and boarding to overcome ramming tactics of the Carthaginians.
It defeated Carthage in a series of three wars over a century and a half.
In three wars spanning 120 years.
In three wars over 120 years.
Over control of the Western Mediterranean.
The Carthaginians were sea traders and had a fleet of warships to protect it. The Romans were extending their empire by land. The two were allies for a period - a convenient way of combining complimentary strengths.
The Western Mediterranean.
They did not rebel against the Romans because they were not subject to the Romans, just rivals. They invaded Italy in 218 BCE.
It interupted their vision of controlling the Western Mediterranean themselves.
Romans and Carthaginians.
Carthaginians and Romans
The Romans and the Carthaginians.
Over control of the Western Mediterranean.
Mediterranean Sea.
Everybody! :) They were at war with about all their neigbors all the time. They fought the German tribes, the British tribes, the French tribes, the Northern Greeks, Romanian and Hungarian sorts, the people of the Russian steppe, the Iranians, the Iraqis, the Turks... you get the idea. There were all sorts of barbaric tribes that Rome fought. They were less advanced technologically and, for the most part, easily beaten. Historically, the Romans had real trouble with the Huns, the Goths, the Carthaginians, and the Parthians. Everybody else was just a nuisance to be beaten to plant another Roman flag on the ground. I hope I helped.
First Punic War.
The Punic Wars.
Hannibal (representing the Carthaginians) and the Romans
For dominance of the Western Mediterranean.
The Carthaginians were sea traders and had a fleet of warships to protect it. The Romans were extending their empire by land. The two were allies for a period - a convenient way of combining complimentary strengths.
The Punic wars were between the Romans and the Carthaginians who were decendant from the phoenicians. The Romans won and destroyed Carthage.