Hannibal's father fought the Romans in Spain. He made Hannibal take a pledge to always hate the Romans. Hannibal takes his army across the Pyreneese and the Alps into Italy. Fights to Rome and ends up to the South of Rome. There is a battle where Rome sends it's best army to fight Hannibal at Cannae. Romans greatly outnumbered the Carthaginians. 60,000 Romans die in this battle. It is the greatest military defeat of Rome and one of the greatest in the history of the world. It gets 50 miles from Rome, but doesn't have enough supplies to go to Rome. He never sieged Rome. If he did, the course of history would've changed.
At the battle of Zama, Hannibal attacks first and brings his war elephants. The Romans came up with a plan to stop the elephants. They blew horns, scaring the elephants. They got turned around which led to the defeat of Hannibal. Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus defeated Hannibal at Zama. Scipio used Hannibal's tactics against him.
Scipio Aemilianus and his soldiers go to Carthage and siege it. Cato the elder sacked and burned Carthage. This was the end of Carthage.
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