Fall and Legacy of Rome

By silversky20
  • 264 BCE

    The Punic Wars ( the First Punic War)

    The Punic Wars ( the First Punic War)
    Rome have fought in a war called the Punic Wars, and the first one was from Punicus. Rome defeated the Carthage and won the islands of Sicily Corsica and Sardina.
  • 241 BCE

    Roman General Regulus death

    Roman General Regulus death
    He was taken as prisoner, and wanted a quick death. The Carthaginians looked away that he was going to die and he looked at the sun.
  • 218 BCE

    The Second Punic War

    The Second Punic War
    The Carthaginians wanted revenge on Rome, and was led by general Hannibal with dozens of war elephants and his army, they went across through Pyrenees, France, and over the Alps into Italy to surprise the Romans.
  • 201 BCE

    The Cathaginians lost of Rome

    The Cathaginians lost of Rome
    The Carthaginians couldn't capture Rome, lost the battle of the Romans, and they give up by giving the outside of Africa and pay huge tribute, or tax to Rome.
  • 149 BCE

    The Third Punic War

    The Third Punic War
    Rome had destroyed the city of Carthage, and gather any survivors by killing them or sold into slavery. Carthage and the region became the new Roman of Africa.
  • 200

    Roman's invasions

    Roman's invasions
    East Asia had went to attack Rome, that was thousand of miles to the west and the attackers were Huns
  • Period: 378 to 476

    The Fall of Rome

    The invaders had defeated the Rome in many different places that they set up on and controlled. By attacking them at Adrianople, New waves of invaders attack on Rome's borders and the west. The Visigoth general Alaric overran Italy, and other invaders called the Vandals, took over Spain and North America. The Hun leader Attila went to take over Europe and Roman's Germanic people had fled. A Germanic leader, had called the event " the "fall" of Rome for they had lost everything they had.
  • Period: 477 to

    Legacy of Rome

    After the fall of Rome, Rome became a better empire than it was before, it's literature, history, and philosophy had advanced than any other. Their art became famous of their work, they loved to attend theater, and have famous architecture to England to Spain. Made many engineering that made Rome for what it look like, made new ideas to achieve science. The laws of Rome had probably made the greatest legacy of Rome that became the key and included the U.S.