HISTORY
ANCIENT ROME
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tigers
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elephants
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giraffes
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falcons
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Detailed explanation-1: -THE CARTHAGINIANS regularly used the North African forest elephant for war, a breed now extinct. This elephant species was much smaller than its bush elephant cousins, on average about 2.5m at the shoulder.
Detailed explanation-2: -Their commander Hannibal marched his troops, including cavalry and African war elephants, across a high pass in the Alps to strike at Rome itself from the north of the Italian peninsula.
Detailed explanation-3: -Carthaginian war elephants engage Roman infantry at the Battle of Zama (202 BC). For the Battle of Zama in 202 BCE, the Carthaginians created a new force of 80 elephants.
Detailed explanation-4: -This was the elephant Hannibal himself had often ridden. Its name, according to the story, was Surus, meaning ‘’the Syrian.