The "'Battle of Zama "', fought around October 19, 202 BC, marked the end of the Second Punic War.
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By defeating the Carthaginians, Scipio Africanus caused Hannibal to leave Italy and return to Africa, where he was later defeated at the Battle of Zama.
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An enemy counter-invasion of North Africa forced him to return to Carthage, where he was decisively defeated by Scipio Africanus at the Battle of Zama.
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After the Battle of Zama, Spengler believes that the Romans never waged, or even were capable of waging, a war against a competing great military power.
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Scipio's foothold in Africa was all but assured, and with the Carthaginian general Hannibal soon returning from Italy, the Battle of Zama would soon follow.
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The result was the ending of the Second Punic War by the famously decisive Battle of Zama in October 202 BC, which gave to Scipio his agnomen " Africanus ".
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In the 2000 film " Gladiator ", the first battle in the Colosseum is meant to reenact Scipio Africanus's battle of Zama against Hannibal's barbarian horde.
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This finally forced Hannibal with his shortage of manpower to retreat to Croton from where he was called to Africa for the battle of Zama, ending the war with a complete Roman victory.
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Nearby Hannibal fights the " Battle of Zama " ( 202 BC ) against Scipio's Roman army, with Masinissa at the head of cavalry on Scipio's right.
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Fabius became gravely ill and died in 203 BC, shortly after Hannibal's army left Italy, and before the eventual Roman victory over Hannibal at the Battle of Zama won by Scipio.
