How was ancient Rome founded? What Carthaginian commander destroyed the Roman Republic? How did the Frankish Empire defeat the Romans? How did Alaric and his army get into Rome? How did rome win the Punic Wars? How did Hannibal keep the Gauls from attacking his army?
On August 2, 216 BC, a Roman army met Hannibal’s troops near Cannae in Italy. The battle cemented Hannibal’s reputation as the greatest strategist of his era and marked a crushing defeat for Rome. The numerically superior Romans were not only defeated, the army was literally wiped...
Why did Hannibal’s Carthaginians win? An analysis of this battle shows that Hannibal’s victory was due to his strategy which was based on the self-knowledge of his Army and its commanders. It was this self-knowledge which enabled his victory and not a superiority of numbers ...
They began writing history near the end of the third century BCE, during the Second Punic War, when Hannibal's military and diplomatic skills, combined with Roman strategic and tactical mistakes, brought Rome to near-defeat. The focus on exempla, even of a simple type, did thus not prevent...
that allowed them to rebuild a profitable economy even after the setbacks of military defeat during thePunicWars, which included a yearly tribute to Rome of almost 10 tons of silver. Such wealth allowed them to have paved streets and multi-story homes, compared with which proud Rome looked ...