HI289 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Numidians, Small Victories, Scorched Earth
Document Summary
Rome responds to naval challenge from carthage and make navy from virtually nothing: build two fleets that were both destroyed in storms, third fleet gets tossed by carthage, rome"s relentless determination. Both sides increasingly exhausted - rome makes one last bid for naval supremacy. Battle of the aegates islands - 10 march 241 bc: rome = 200 warships - 30 sunk, 50 damaged, carthage = 250 warships - 50 sunk, 70 captured, 4000 men taken prisoner. Carthage sues for peace - forced to pay equal to 99 tons of silver) and surrender sicily. During mercenary war (240-238 bc) rome occupies corsica and sardinia: carthage"s mercenaries rebel as they cannot be paid. Hannibal takes city of saguntum - a roman protectorate - war on! Monday, march 12, 2018: march to italy, defeat roman armies, dismantle rome"s alliance system, compel rome to surrender.
