Gabriella Spilker                                                                                                             5/6/15


                                                      West Civ

     Today in West Civ we took more notes on Rome. Below I have listed some of my notes.

• The punic wars (264-146 BCE)
• there were three wars 
• first war two empires were fighting for control
• (264241 BCE)
• naval battles for control of the island Sicily 
• Rome wins the first Punic war 
• second Punic war
• (218-201 BCE)
• 29 year old Carthaginian eneral Hannibal almost does the impossible
• he almost defeats Rome 
• they attacked Rome from the north 
• Rome wanted to remove the threat of Carthage 
• so they decided that they wont be soldiers until the get what they want 
• finally they got the laws in public and they got some rights