Doing My Blog Before Midnight!!!!

Today I am taking notes on slides 23-31!

A Roman legion was an heavy elite infantry with 5,000 soldiers, all exclusively being Roman citizens. They were not init for the pay and they had a sword, a dagger, and  armor with a tunic. A group of eighty soldiers was a century and if they rode on horseback it was called a calvary. The Punic Wars was Rome vs. Carthage, it lasted from 264 B.C. to 146 B.C., and consisted of three wars. The First Punic War started in 264 B.C. and luted until 241 B.C.. It was a series of naval battles over the control of the island of Sicily, Rome was the victor. The Second Punic War started in 218 B.C. and went until 201 B.C.. Carthaginian general Hannibal, who was 29 years old at the time, and almost did what was considered impossible, taking over Rome. He attacked from the north after crossing Iberia, AKA Spain, and the Alps. He invaded the peninsula and laid siege for 15 years, but was never able to get to Rome. The Third, and final, Punic War lasted from 149 B.C. to 146 B.C. when Rome finally decided they wanted to remove the threat that Carthage posed. Scipio, Tiberius Gracchus, and others brutally attacked the city. Carthage burned for 17 days and the city walls and buildings were obliterated. When they ended the war they sold the last 50,000 citizens into slavery. The rest of Carthage's land was annexed and made into Roman provinces of Africa. Slaves came flooding into Rome, the 50,000 Carthaginians and 150,000 Greek POWs, and by the end of the second century B.C. there were over a million slaves in Italy. Small farmers would lose their land to the aristocrats for little or no money when they couldn't pay off their debts, sometimes they took it because the owners were off fighting battles. Slaves worked on the farms of the rich and the big farms became massive estates that were called latifundia. Basically the rich were just becoming more and more wealthy.