This is known as the First Punic War. You can see it on the timeline right over here, going from 264 to 241. To 241 right over there. And it's a result of a conflict that starts between two city states in Sicily. Sicily is this island right over here. And you have the city state of Syracuse, which is a powerful city originally established by the Greeks, and it gets into a scuffle with Messina, which is another city state at the northern, northeastern tip of Sicily. And Rome and Carthage, these two great powers, get embroiled, and it ends up being a conflict over the island of Sicily, where Carthage already had a foothold on the west coast.