West Civ Day #28- The Prime Punic

Today in West Civ we read a section about the Punic wars and then took notes on them. So here are the notes.

-the Romans fought Carthage
-Carthage was on the north coast of Africa
-Greeks fought Carthage so when Rome became power they fought Carthage
-winner took command of western Mediterranean
-three phases/ rounds of the Punic wars from 264 B.C. to 146 B.C.
-first phase Rome forced Carthage out of Sicily
-Carthage came back in the second phase
-they captured and defeated most of Italy
-but with help of allies and their own men Rome forced Carthage out
-Carthage was beaten badly
-scared of Carthage, Rome went offensive and captured and destroyed Carthage
-all of the land that Carthage owned became Roman like Sicily, Spain, and Africa
-in the later years Rome would spread from eastern Mediterranean to Britain
-Rome's first involvement was with Greece
-Around 200 B.C. Greek ambassadors came to Rome for help with resisting the king of Macedonia