The Romans and the rest of unit 3

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  • Period: 600 BCE to 500

    Unit 3

  • Period: 264 BCE to 241 BCE

    The first Punic war

    The first Punic War was between the Romans and the Carthaginian empire stemming from the island of Sicily
  • Period: 264 BCE to 260 BCE

    The Romans copy a ship

    Sometime early in the first Punic War, the Romans obtained a Carthaginian ship.
    The Romans said the ship had washed ashore.
    The Romans then took the Carthaginian ship tore it down piece by piece and rebuilt it and directly copied the Carthaginian design.
  • Period: 218 BCE to 201 BCE

    The Second Punic war

    The second Punic War stemmed from the overbearing restrictions put on Carthage after the first Punic War and almost led to the destruction of the Romans.
  • 217 BCE

    Hannibal crosses the Alps

    Hannibal Barca of Carthage crosses the Alps in 16 days to invade Rome from the land.
  • Period: 213 BCE to 212 BCE

    Invasion of Syracuse

    The Romans tried to invade Syracuse previously and failed thanks to Archamedies being a Ccazy guy who may or may not have made a death ray and other inventions that prevented the Roman invasion for years. even during the siege, the Roman government ordered Archamedies to stay alive but a soldier murdered him after Archamedies said go away I'm doing math.