The Second Punic War and the Second World War- More in Common Than Only the Name?
<p>The Punic Wars are among the most famous conflicts in military history. They gave a playing field to sodden and spearless Romans, Celtic mercenaries, gold-decked Numidians, war elephants, orators shouting “Carthago delenda est” at the end of every speech, and swimming chickens detailing the outcomes of battles. At the Battle of Cannae in 216, more losses- 70,000 men- were incurred in a single day until the tragic fighting on the Somme river in 1916, more than 2100 years later. The Punic Wars and the World Wars have a lot in common.</p>
<p>Let’s take the matter of the cause. The first and principal cause of the Second Punic War was the resentment created when the Carthaginians, crushed by the Romans in the First Punic War, evacuated Sardinia and were forced to pay seventeen hundred talents (approx. 550 million USD) in order to avoid war. They were forced to accept punitive conditions for their role in the first war and stewed in their anger of Rome, waiting for an opportunity to destroy it.</p>
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