When the First Punic War broke out, they did not have a navy. By the end, Roman ships dominated the Mediterranean. When ...

For 118 years, they fought three Punic Wars until greater Roman growth and vitality finally ... military clout to destroy their adversary’s army, march on the respective enemy capital, occupy ...

A 2,000-year-old battering ram sunk during the First Punic ... Roman Republic in the third and second centuries BCE over dominance of the western Mediterranean, and three long periods of war ...