Notes of Punic Wars

1. Punic Wars were fought between Rome and Carthage from 264 to 146 BC.
2. Battle of Cannai - 60,000 of Rome's best soldiers die on the battlefield
3. Hannibal's purpose was to destroy and defeat Rome
4. Scipio
• Scared off elephants, charged calvary, elephants turn back to Carthage line
• Roman calvary hits Carthage from behind

- Herodotus is known as the father if history. He writes a systematic history of a series of event and concentrates primarily on the events surrounding the Persian Wars. He goes out and tracks down stories for himself.

- Thucydides was Greek and lived after Herodotus. He wrote the history of the Peloponnesian War. He is a more accurate historian and really tried to get the story right.

- Livy is a Roman historian. He write the history of Rome from the beginning of Romulus and Remus all the way up to his time, the age of the emperor Augustus.

---These three authors are the basis if you are a historian.