Second Punic War Research 2022

Running head: SECOND PUNIC WAR
SECOND PUNIC WAR
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1SECOND PUNIC WAR
INTRODUCTION
The second Punic war which war fought during the spring of “218 to 201 BC” for
around 17 years between “Carthage and the Roman Republic, with the participation of Greek
polities and Numidian and Iberian forces on both sides”. It was also known as “The
Hannibalic War”. And according to the Roman legends the “War against the Hannibale”
was considered second of the third “greatest and deadliest” war in the history of “human
conflicts” which was fought across the “entire Western Mediterranean”. During the war
hundreds and thousands of soldiers were killed, cities and towns were destroyed, many
“civilian population” were massacred and enslaved as “Prisoners of war” by both the party.
(forumromanum, 2019)
OUTCOME OF THE SECOND PUNIC WAR
The Second Punic War ended in around 203 B.C with the defeat of the Hannibal`s
forces in the hands of the Romans. After the loss, “Hannibal`s force” “Carthaginians” were
compelled to leave the hope of acquiring Italy after the “Romans” were victorious in Spain
and North Africa under the “rising young general Publius Cornelius Scipio who was later
known as Scipio Africanus”. The defeat in the Second Punic War effectively put an end to
“to Carthage’s empire in the western Mediterranean leaving Rome in control of Spain and
allowing Carthage to retain only its territory in North Africa ”. The “Carthage” were also
compled to pay huge “indemnity” in form of sliver to the “Rome” of around 200 silver “
talents” for about fifty years annually. The “Carthage” were also allowed only to only 10
“naval ships”. The “Carthage” were also forbidden to raise any army without the permission
from the “Rome” (Albarède et al. , 2016).