rome fought three wars with carthage over a period of a hundred years. these wars were called the sicilian wars.
rome fought three wars with carthage over a period of a hundred years. these wars were called the sicilian wars.
rome fought three wars with carthage over a period of a hundred years. these wars were called the?
sicilian wars
greek cities contested with carthage for the western mediterranean culminating in the sicilian wars and the pyrrhic war over sicily, while the romans fought three wars against carthage, known as the punic wars, "punic" meaning "phoenician" in latin.









































section::::ancient history.:punic republic.
carthage
the samnite was named for the people of samnium, an area in the southern apennine mountains of the italian peninsula that rome subdued in the 4th century bc. rome fought three wars with samnium from 343 to 290 bc. livy (9.40) relates that after rome defeated samnium and molise in 308 bc, rome's allies, the campanians, confiscated samnite arms and armour as spoils of war. they outfitted ceremonial warriors with the equipment and staged mock combats at their celebratory banquets:
samnite (gladiator type)