By many accounts, the most destructive war in the ancient world, lasting from 218 to 201 BCE. Started with the invasion of the Carthaginian general Hannibal into Italy. Hannibal’s power would reach it’s climax with the Battle of Cannae, which led to the death of over 70,000 Roman soldiers in one day. The Romans would turn the tide under the leadership of the general Publius Cornelius Scipio, who would conquer the coastline of Hispania and later defeat Hannibal in North Africa at the Battle of Zama. By the end of the war, Rome was the supreme power in the Western Mediterranean.
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