The Battle Of Zama Flashcards
Navy was the largest in the ancient world at the time
Carthage
It did not maintain a large permanent standing army
Relied on mercenaries
Carthage secret weapon the finest cavalry in the ancient world
Numidian cavalry
The strength of Carthage lay in its
Commerce and powerful navy
According to legend romw as founded in 753 bc by twin brothers descended from the Trojan lrince Aeneas
Romulus and Remus
SPQR
The Senate and people of rome
Rome made deals with its conquered enemy
Some were given roman citizenship
Roman’s in general tended to be very tolerant towards most religions and cults, so long as they did
Not cause trouble
Cause of first punic war
Sicily
First panic war fleet then develops the
Corvus
Results of first punic war
-Pay heavy ransoms for its prisoners
-Neither power is to interfere in any territory of the other
In an attempt to recover her strength and become formidable again Carthage expands into Spain
Silver mines, plenty of men to serve in the carthaginian army
Rome accepts Carthage excuse for the expansion and does nothing
Not yet of interest to Rome
Cause of second punic war
Hatred, revenge, hannibal
Battle of ticinius
Scipio the elder
GREEN
Fabius maximus
Refusing open battle with his opponent
Fabian strategy
Hoping to exhaust him in a long war of
Attrition
Hannibal decisively defeats a numerically superior army
Battle of cannae
Rome counterattack
Avoid Hannibal
- Rome raises an army under Scipio brothers and sends it to Spain
Western numidians was defeated and taken prisoners
King syphax
Scipio bribed the ___ to switch sides 6000
Numidians
Hannibal was on the verge of victory
When the numidians returned encircling Hannibals army
Results
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
Legacy
Result of Zama is the decline of Carthage and rise of Rome
An empire based in Europe not one based in Africa
