Essays Tagged: "Carthaginian"
Hannibal Barca
eople that felt threatened by this and felt they needed to do something about it. These people, the Carthaginians, had been defeated during the first Punic War and were looking to save face with a sec ... on their people as a whole. Hannibal Barca was his name and despite losing the Second Punic War the Carthaginian general was a military genius.'Everything known about Hannibal Barca has come from his ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > Roman History
Hannibal's superior command
known as the Ofanto), near the town of Cannae, the Romans suffered their greatest defeat. The famed Carthaginian, General Hannibal Barca, devastated the Roman army on the 2nd of August, 216 B.C.E. in ... d food for his own army.The senate of Rome as well the population was determined to battle with the Carthaginian general. Rome was seething after the Carthaginians massacred fifteen thousand soldiers ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > Roman History
Analytical Bibliography on Hannibal and the Second Punic War.
cond Punic War, fought between Carthage and the Roman Republic from 218-202 BC, was the final major Carthaginian military opposition to Rome's dominance in the Mediterranean. Hannibal, born in 247 as ... n-law Hasdrubal until his assassination in 221, after which he became the commander in chief of the Carthaginian army in Spain. He quickly adopted his father's war like policy...The Second Punic War b ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > Roman History
The extroardinary life of Hannibal Barca. It gives you, the reader insite on his military atchievements and biography.
nician cities in the west Mediterranean over which Carthage gradually gained control. From then on, Carthaginian power expanded into Spain, Sicily and numerous other places in the northern Mediterrane ... nd, had popular support and the command of the armed forces. With these he proceeded to develop the Carthaginian hold on Spain, os- tensibly to enable Carthage to pay repatriation to Rome, but in fact ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
Lives of Saints in Medieval Europe.
St. Perpetua gave her life happily in the name of faith during the anti-Christian 3rd century AD in Carthaginian amphitheatre. And St. Godelieve lived in an abusive marriage ever praying to God wishin ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
The Battle of Cannae
re still studied and used today. Due to the combination of Hannibal's tactical genius, the superior Carthaginian cavalry, and the poor leadership of the Roman army, the Carthaginians were able to comp ... he Carthaginians were able to completely defeat the Romans.For the past fifty years, the Romans and Carthaginians had engaged in a series of struggles known as the Punic wars. The first Punic war was ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
Punic Wars; knock-out essay style
d Sicily. In the Second Punic War Hannibal attempted to conquer Rome that resulted in great loss of Carthaginian territories. The Third Punic War resulted in the final destruction of Carthage, the ens ... c War (264-241 BC) was the outcome of growing political and economic rivalry between the Romans and Carthaginians. The greatest naval power of the Mediterranean at that time was the North African city ...
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Spanish cuisine
Spanish history began with Phoenician, Greek and Carthaginian coastal settlements.Later the Romans and the Moors brought with them elements of their ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
March 2nd 2004 "The weakness of peace treaties is that they tend to address the past war rather than the future peace." With reference to WWI, show how far you concur with this assertion?
Britain, Clemenceau, PM of France and Orlando, PM of Italy. Many people argue that Versailles was a Carthaginian treaty, that itdestroyed the German economy and Germany as a country. Wilson wanted to ... especially Hitler had the perfect opportunity to gain the support of the people and to abandon the "Carthaginian" punishments they had received without the rest of the world being willing to stop them ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II
The 1st Punic War 264 - 241 BC
to a Greek city-state by 300BC. It was a wealthy city-state that made most of its money from trade. Carthaginian merchants went from one end of the Mediterranean to the other. The city's fleet was hug ... the Mediterranean, consequently Rome sends in its fleet. The appearance of Rome's fleet caused the Carthaginian fleet to retreat. This conflict becomes known as the 1st Punic War. The Phoenicians fou ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
Punic Wars
Pyrrhus, but after his departure, Hiero, tyrant of Syracuse, attacked them. The Mamertines wanted a Carthaginian garrison. Mamertines then requested Roman assistance against the Carthaginians. When th ... cond Punic War, fought between Carthage and the Roman Republic from 218-202 BC, was the final major Carthaginian military opposition to Rome's domination in the Mediterranean. Hamilcar lead Carthage i ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Rome from state to empire.
ned into a war at sea; Rome had little experience in sea warfare. However, Rome had found a wrecked Carthaginian warship and used it as a model to produce their navy. Rome quickly came up with ways to ... are; an example of this would be the massive gang plank used to board enemy ships. In 241 B.C., the Carthaginian commander, Hamilacr Barca surrendered to Rome because Rome could afford to produce one ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > Roman History
Hannibal 2
Hannibal In 237 B.C., Hamilcar Barca took his nine year old son, Hannibal, to the alter of a Carthaginian god and made him swear that he would always be an enemy to the Romans. Hannibal and his ... would always be an enemy to the Romans. Hannibal and his father then left for Spain. The center of Carthaginian power in Spain was the city of New Carthage(modern Carthagena). Hannibal saw firsthand ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > Roman History