SMC civilization historical Terms that are up on the board you need to know the ones crossed out you don’t need to know but should be in the notes. Mediterranean world- BCE=BC CE=AD Hellenistic period starts with alexander the great conquering the east Mediterranean everyone learns Greek (kione/ common) Greek is common culture . Roman republic takes over Mediterranean and adopt the Greek culture during the 700 year period Europe Africa and Asia are more connected than they will be until the 20th
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Barca was one full of controversy‚ excitement‚ and great accomplishments. As a leader during the Punic Wars‚ a war fought between Rome and Carthage‚ he was faced with a multitude of tough decisions. His journey began at the young age of ten when his father‚ Hamilcar another great Carthaginian general‚ took him to Iberia and introduced him to the world of war. He was a child who had “grown up with war” (Hannibal‚ Clifford W. Mills) and in a time when it signified respect he became hungry to live up
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Elephants in War: Was Hannibal’s Reliance on Elephants in his armies Directly Related to the Fall of Carthage to Rome in the Second Punic War? By: Cameron McCurdy History Saint John High school February 23‚ 2014 Candidate: 000320 0014 Advisor: Ms Maryanne Lewell Word Count: 3055 Abstract: This essay‚ which examines all the available evidence for Hannibal ’s use of elephants in the Second Punic War‚ refutes the contention that Hannibal was
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the 2nd Punic War. Therefore‚ we will be focusing on the time period starting from 500 BC till the end of the 2nd Punic War (202 BC). Under Commerce‚ we are focusing on international trade (trade between The Carthage Empire‚ North Africa and other cities of the Iberian Peninsula) and how it became an international metropolis due to its strategic location near the Mediterranean trade routes. Under Conflict‚ we are focusing on military (advanced navy) and territorial expansion (Punic Wars). We will
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It was moreover the experience of the Second Punic War the first stimulated the Romans to write a national history. Polybius chose 220BC to begin narrative of Rome’s tak over of the Mediterranean - It is largely due to Hannibal’s defeat at Zama that we stand here today as the heirs of Graeco Romano culture. Had Scipio lost there is no guarantee that the Carthaginians would have incorporated Hellenic culture into their livelyblood - It was the Hannibalic war which drew he Romans into the Greek
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Polybius Polybius was a Greek historian of the Hellenistic period born in Megalopolis‚ Arcadia (200-118 B.C). He was the son of Lycortas‚ also a Greek Politician who became the Cavalry commander of the Achaean league (a Hellenistic period of alliance between Greek city states on the northern and central Peloponnese). The Achaean league existed between 280 and 146 B.C‚ and at that time Polybius was also a member of the Achaean league in which he spent trying to maintain the independence of Macedonia
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left wing and charged across the field of battle to the right wing‚ where it fell into the rear of the cavalry of the Roman allies. With these strategies‚ Hannibal has the last victory against Rome. Hannibal’s military genius lead him to win all Punic wars.
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the day when he was proclaimed commander in chief‚ he seemed to regard Italy as his assigned field of action‚ and war with Rome as a duty imposed upon him.”(Livy 21.5‚ Line 1-3.) This inner rage that was instilled in him as a child is a driving force that can be seen throughout this battle as well as his remaining campaigns against the Romans.
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close to him. His peers in Carthage were suspicious of him and were jealous of the power and fame of the Barca family.” Lastly the Romans viewed Hannibal “[as] the cause of great evil. They insisted that Hamical and his sons had consciously provoked a war.” With all the people of that time’s view on Hannibal in the eyes of those in the ancient world it’s in the book Hannibal which gives the best summary of who Hannibal was. As written by Spray “[Hannibal] was and rained Carthage’s loyal servant‚ no more
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weakness and positive impact. Salmon‚ E. (1960). The Strategy of the Second Punic War. Greece & Rome‚ 7(2)‚ 131-142. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/641546 In the article the author Salmon argues that the strategy of the Carthaginians in the Second Punic War must be prepared from the end of the First Punic War. In the author’s opinion‚ the Carthaginians are making a basic structure of revenge strategy when they lose the first war‚ and Spain is very important for this strategy. The Carthaginians
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