The Second Punic War broke out in 218 BCE when Hannibal attacked a Spanish city that was an ally of Rome. In 202 BCE, he was defeated at the Battle of Zama, in North Africa, and Carthage was again hit with a heavy war indemnity. It also entered into a peace treaty with Rome that ...
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The, by then, Carthaginian domain in Spain was much expanded by Hamilcar Barca, the father of the great Hannibal (247-183 BC), in the time between the First (264-241) and Second (218-201) Punic Wars with Rome. In the course of that expansion, the city later known in Latin as ...