The Punic Wars

Punic wars
The punic wars were a series of wars between carthage and rome.the wars happened in different times and places and were called the "punic" wars because the romans called the carthageinians "Poeni".The first of the three wars started in 246 BC, and the last of the three ended in 146 BC. The first war was 23 years long. The second war was 17 and finally the last war was 3 years.
The first war (264-241 BC) started because a conflict between two different city states on the island of Sicily, Messana and Syracuse, had been going on and eventually both Rome and Carthage stepped in.…