| 21. | One year later the First Punic War erupted.
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| 22. | Picenum is best known for siding with Rome against Hannibal during the Punic Wars.
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| 23. | Perhaps you might find the articles on Hannibal and the Second Punic War interesting.
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| 24. | Rome took control of Carthage after the Third Punic War ( 149 146 ).
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| 25. | The next milestone in the development of the army was the Second Punic War.
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| 26. | The Carthaginian state declined because of successive defeats by the Romans in the Punic Wars.
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| 27. | For this reason, land warfare played a secondary role in the First Punic War.
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| 28. | The end of the Punic wars saw an increase in piracy in the western Mediterranean.
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| 29. | However, only 32 Quinqueremes were manned at the start of the Second Punic War.
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| 30. | However, Roman expansion was delayed for some twenty years by the Second Punic War.
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