The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 AD . Free Greek StatesSyrian PossessionsEgyptian <• 5 Longitude West Longitude East. >f the Seleucidae hadr extent to the East)wn on this map. 1 Greenwich 25 §441] WINNING THE WEST, 264-146 373 438. Hannibal at Saguntum; Rome declares War, 218 — Hannibal continued the work of his great father in made the southern half of that rich land a Carthaginianprovince and organized it thoroughly. Then he rapidly carriedthe Carthaginian frontier to the Ebro, collected a magnificentarmy of over a hundred thousand men, and besieged S
The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 AD . Free Greek StatesSyrian PossessionsEgyptian <• 5 Longitude West Longitude East. >f the Seleucidae hadr extent to the East)wn on this map. 1 Greenwich 25 §441] WINNING THE WEST, 264-146 373 438. Hannibal at Saguntum; Rome declares War, 218 — Hannibal continued the work of his great father in made the southern half of that rich land a Carthaginianprovince and organized it thoroughly. Then he rapidly carriedthe Carthaginian frontier to the Ebro, collected a magnificentarmy of over a hundred thousand men, and besieged Saguntum,an ancient Greek colony near the east coast. Fearing Carthagin-ian advance, Saguntum had sought Roman alliance; and now,when Carthage refused to recall Hannibal, Rome, in alarm andanger, declared war (218 ). 439. Hannibals Invasion of Italy. — The Second Punic War(218-202 ) was somewhat shorter than the First, but it wasan even more strenuous struggle. Rome had intended totake the offensive. Indeed, she dispatched one consul in aleisurely way to Spain, and started the other for Africa by wayof Sicily. But Hanni
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