WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Punic Wars were a series of conflicts fought between Carthage and Rome between 264 BCE and 146 BCE. The name Punic comes from the word Phoenician (Phoinix in the Greek, Poenus from Punicus in Latin) as applied to the citizens of Carthage, who were of Phoenician ethnicity.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Punic Wars were a series of three conflicts involving the Roman Republic and the Empire of Carthage from 264 BCE until 146 BCE. For over a century the Romans and the Carthaginians jostled to control the seas and the lands of the Italian peninsula, Sicily, northern Africa and the southern lands of Spain.

Detailed explanation-3: -Three Punic Wars between Rome and Carthage mark the end of the Carthaginian (Punic) Empire and leave the Roman Republic dominant in the Mediterranean.

Detailed explanation-4: -The First Punic War was a conflict between Rome and Carthage. This was a long war, beginning in 264 BC and not ending until 241 BC. Most of the conflict took place on the island of Sicily, or in the waters surrounding Sicily. At one point Rome attacked Carthaginian lands in Africa, very close to Carthage itself.