Punic Wars Video

Today we watched a three videos about the Punic Wars. It was very detailed and better to understand, because the book only covers the basis of it. The video tells more details about Carthage and their people. The first battle or war in the Punic wars was between Rome and Carthage in Sicily. After that, Carthage's king made his son take an oak to never become allies with Rome and to get revenge. The son couldn't inherit the power because he wasn't old enough, so the son in law took power. Once the son was old enough, they invaded Rome through the back way crossing the mountains. It was a very dangerous journey and they lost more than half their men, but surprise attacked the Romans. The Romans had sent both of their consuls to different locations to fight against Carthage, but failed because Carthage went the other way. They quickly retreated when they heard Carthage was coming. Rome couldn't hold Carthage off, so Carthage troops were able to basically walk through Rome and destroy and burn buildings. In the end, Rome is able to defeat Carthage, says the book. But we are going to watch another video in class tomorrow going into more detail about how, because the book is vague. The second war was the main and hardest war for both Carthage and Rome.