3497–3615 AM · 264 BCE — 146 BCE · world history
The Punic Wars and Hannibal
A century-long duel between Rome and Carthage ends with Carthage erased.
Three wars for the western Mediterranean. In the second, Hannibal marches an army with elephants over the Alps and annihilates Rome's largest field army at Cannae — but cannot take the city. Scipio carries the war to Africa and wins at Zama. In 146 BCE Carthage is burned and its land becomes a Roman province.