Roman Legion

• 5,000 soldiers, not in it for pay (not yet)
• the Roman army elite heavy infantry 
• recruited exclusively from Roman citizens
• group of eighty;s a century 
• on horseback is the cavalry 
• shield,sword,dagger,and armor and tunic
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The Punic Wars 

• 264-146 BCE
• Rome vs Cathage
• three wars
• First Punic War (264-241 BCE)
• navel battles for control of the strategically located island of Sicily
• Rome wins this war

second punic war (218-201 BCE)

• 29 year old Carthaginian general Hannibal almost does the impossible taking Rome
• attacks Rome from the North after crossing Iberia (Spain) and the alps 
• lays siege to much of the peninsula for 15 years, but he never can get to Rome

Third war (149-146 BCE)

• Rome wanted to finally remove the threat of Carthage
• Scipio, Tiberius Gracchus,and others mercilessly attacked the city 
• Carthage was burned for 17 days the city's walls and buildings were utterly destroyed 
• when the war ended, the last 50,000 people in the city were sold  into slavery
• the rest of Carthage's territories were annexed, and made into the Roman province of Africa