5000 soldiers, not in it for pay (not yet) the roman army's elite heavy infantry recruited exclusively from roman citizens group of 80 is a century on horseback is cavalry shield, sword, dagger, and armor and tunic The Punic Wars (264-146 BCE) rome vs. carthage 3 wars First Punic War naval battles from control of the strategically located island of Sicily rome wins Second Punic War (218-201 BCE) 29-year-old Carthaginian general Hannibal almost does the impossible: taking rome attacks rome from the north after crossing Iberia (spain) and the Alps lays seige to much of the peninsula for 15 years, but he can never get to rome third and final Punic war (149-146) rome wanted to finally remove the threat of carthage scipio, Tiberius Gracchus, and others mercilessly attacked the city carthage was burned for 17 days; the city's walls and buildings were utterly destroyed when the war ended, the last 50,000 people in the city ...
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