MAGAZINE THE PUNIC WARS BY SANTIAGO BRENES

HWisotrolrdy Project By Santiago Brenes



WORLD & CULTURE Magazine November 22 , Edition number 11

The Punic Wars and its effect on the expansion of Rome Santiago Brenes 1

Contents 02 01 The impact of the Punic war on roman society. Page 4 Rome: from a small city to an empire that would rule the world. Page 3. 2

Rome: from a This war was very expensive, and Carthage charged heavy taxes to pay this 01 small city to an debt. In the third Punic war the Roman empire that would arbor Catón el Viejo was determined to rule the world destroy Carthage. This is how Rome The Punic Wars were a series of conflicts Roman merchants trading in Carthaginian managed to expand both in weapons and between Rome and Carthage between 264 BC waters were drowned. However, Rome, which in wealth. Later Rome wins the island of did not have a navy and did not know how to Sicilia, Corsica and Serdeña. From the and 146 BC. C. This conflict sought the fight in water, only knew how to fight on land, hegemony of Rome. The Carthage and the quickly built more than 200 ships equipped year 219 B.C. Henceforth, Rome had Romans traded in the Mediterranean Sea and with weapons. This is how Rome manages to gained dominance over the fought to be the only ones who could trade in win the 3 wars and manages to position itself this place to have more wealth. Rome was a Mediterranean, controlling parts of North small city without a navy and Carthage a small as a powerful city, also Carthage was no Africa, Spain, Italy, and the Balkans. This port to the richest and most powerful city in longer so interested in expelling the Romans from Mediterranean waters but in conquering brought great wealth to the Republic the Mediterranean region. Spain. 3

The impact of the Another negative impact was that many Punic war on Romans no longer lived near Rome and could not vote. So they supported great 02 roman society politicians and generals to defend their interests in Rome. All this started civil Although it is true that Rome defeated The great aristocrats became richer than the wars in Rome. The Republic was not able Carthage in the three Punic wars and Roman State itself and the poor poorer and managed to acquire many territories and poorer. The struggle for power became more to manage the great empire that it wealth, not everything was so positive for and more difficult and various politicians conquered. The result was the civil wars began to turn to the people to gain influence Roman society. over their rivals, which greatly angered those (late II BC-late I BC), during which who preferred to keep politics the preserve of different generals fought for power. Roman conquests brought gigantic wealth to aristocrats. The army became professional Julius Caesar managed to conquer it for Rome. But they had dangerous effects too. but each soldier had to pay for his equipment. a while, but he was killed. His adoptive son became the first emperor of Rome, In Rome, the entire economic and political That made the military a very attractive system changed, for example, social career path. But he also gave a lot of power to taking the name of Augustus. inequalities increased, which increased tensions between rich and poor. the generals, since the well-being of their 3 soldiers depended on them, and they were . often the ones who paid the salaries out of pocket.

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WORLMDAAGNADZICNUELTURE World and Culture Santiago Brenes Journalist and Magazine writter PhD in history and journalism