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    SECOND PUNIC WAR

    Sep 05, 2019 2 minutes

    264 BCE –

    ORIGINS

    Carthage is defeated in the First Punic War (264-241 BCE) and loses Sardinia and Corsica to Rome. However, the Carthaginians gain control in Iberia and tensions rise over the hegemony of Saguntum, a Hellenized coastal city with Roman connections.

    May-December 219 BCE

    SIEGE OF SAGUNTUM 01

    Hannibal, the Carthaginian military leader in Iberia, besieges pro-Roman Saguntum. Rome does not send aid and Hannibal kills every adult in the city after

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