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. Now what's interesting going into this war is that Carthage had a powerful, you could view it as an empire over the sea. It had a very powerful navy, while Rome had a very powerful army, and not really much of a navy to speak of. But as we'll see as we go through the First Punic War, that will change.