CLA231H1 Lecture 7: Lecture 7 Beginnings of Empire
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B. c. : sicily, sardinia, corsica, cisapline gaul (northern italy) c, transalpine gaul (southern france, africa proconsularis (tunsia) War continued until 242 b. c. , with minor victories and losses until rome won a series of decisive victories rather than risk another invasion of north africa settled for a truce and forced carthage to pay large indemnity. Interwar period state of carthage: navy decimated and not enough resources to continue, no longer able to draw upon sicily to staff army/troops, huge indemnity to rome could not afford to pay mercenaries in their employ. Saguntum demanded that carthage hand over hannibal (they refused) refusal rome declared war as a result. Major military campaign to spain but hannibal and army had already left. Hannibal travelled through the pyrenees and the alps with about 50,000 men. Hannibal made an ally of the gauls gauls and romans were enemies. Gauls played a role in the latin war and had once sacked rome.
