Christine May Cole, 59, Stringtown, died January 19, 1995 at Atoka Memorial Hospital. A housewife, she was born in Ardmore, OK, August 17, 1935 and was the daughter of Marion Bayles and Ruby Junt Bayles. She and Albert Edger Cole, were married in Ada, OK, August 23, 1953.
After 23 years of fighting, Rome emerged the victor and imposed heavy conditions upon Carthage as the price for peace. The conflict was called the Punic War because Rome's name for Carthaginians was Punici (older Phoenici, due to their Phoenician ancestry). In the middle of the 3rd century BC, the power of Rome was growing.
View HIST111-Week3Forum3 from HIST 111 at American Public University. The Punic Wars were essentially a series of conflicts between two emerging states (Rome and Carthage) hungry for territorial expansion and control. Only one winner emerged at the conclusion of the decades-long, on-and-off wars. Carthage and Rome were up-and-coming states in the Mediterranean with strong economies, cultures, and armies. Expansion into and throughout the Mediterranean came naturally, and they eventually butted heads in this small theater over control of the island of Sicily. 1