05/06 Class

Roman Legion 

• 5,000 soldiers, not in it for pay
• Group of eighty century 

Punic Wars in Carthage - The Punic Wars (264 – 146 BCE)

• First Punic War – (264 – 241 BCE) 
• Naval battle for control of the strategically located of Sicily 
• Second Punic War (218 – 201 BCE) 
• Third Punic War (149 – 146 BCE) 
• The rest of Carthage’s territories were annexed, and made into the Roman province of Africa 

Economic Change; Social Upheavals

• Slaves poured into Italy (50,000 Carthaginians, 150,000 Greek POWs, etc.) 
• By the end of the Second Century BCE there was over a million slaves in Italy