The Battle Of Zama

Question 1

Navy was the largest in the ancient world at the time

Answer 1

Carthage

Question 2

It did not maintain a large permanent standing army

Answer 2

Relied on mercenaries

Question 3

Carthage secret weapon the finest cavalry in the ancient world

Answer 3

Numidian cavalry

Question 4

The strength of Carthage lay in its

Answer 4

Commerce and powerful navy

Question 5

According to legend romw as founded in 753 bc by twin brothers descended from the Trojan lrince Aeneas

Answer 5

Romulus and Remus

Question 6

SPQR

Answer 6

The Senate and people of rome

Question 7

Rome made deals with its conquered enemy

Answer 7

Some were given roman citizenship

Question 8

Roman’s in general tended to be very tolerant towards most religions and cults, so long as they did

Answer 8

Not cause trouble

Question 9

Cause of first punic war

Answer 9

Sicily

Question 10

First panic war fleet then develops the

Answer 10

Corvus

Question 11

Results of first punic war

Answer 11

-Pay heavy ransoms for its prisoners
-Neither power is to interfere in any territory of the other

Question 12

In an attempt to recover her strength and become formidable again Carthage expands into Spain

Answer 12

Silver mines, plenty of men to serve in the carthaginian army

Question 13

Rome accepts Carthage excuse for the expansion and does nothing

Answer 13

Not yet of interest to Rome

Question 14

Cause of second punic war

Answer 14

Hatred, revenge, hannibal

Question 15

Battle of ticinius

Answer 15

Scipio the elder

Question 16

GREEN

Answer 16

Fabius maximus

Question 17

Refusing open battle with his opponent

Answer 17

Fabian strategy

Question 18

Hoping to exhaust him in a long war of

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Attrition

Question 19

Hannibal decisively defeats a numerically superior army

Answer 19

Battle of cannae

Question 20

Rome counterattack

Answer 20

Avoid Hannibal
- Rome raises an army under Scipio brothers and sends it to Spain

Question 21

Western numidians was defeated and taken prisoners

Answer 21

King syphax

Question 22

Scipio bribed the ___ to switch sides 6000

Answer 22

Numidians

Question 23

Hannibal was on the verge of victory

Answer 23

When the numidians returned encircling Hannibals army

Question 24

Results

Answer 24

1 forced to give up Spain
2 force to pay 10000 talents for 50 years
3 reduce navy to 10 ships
4 forbidden to raise an army without the permission of Rome

Question 25

Legacy

Answer 25

Result of Zama is the decline of Carthage and rise of Rome
An empire based in Europe not one based in Africa