Punic Wars

Antiochus was no longer waging a war of spears and arrows, but rather a war of words and diplomacy against the Romans. Antiochus continued in this fashion for the next two years of the “war”. When Antiochus failed to challenge them any further, a new Consul, Manlius Vulso, decided to strike out against the Cappadocians who occupied central Anatolia in search of…

Carthage had greater wealth, and Rome had better organization. Carthage had more brilliant military leaders such as Hannibal, but Rome had loyalty of her citizens because of laws they had. All in all Rome was better than Carthage that is why Rome won the Punic…

during the Second Punic War, after two battles in which resulted in Carthage being victorious. The Roman army outnumbered the Carthaginian army, but Hannibal employed tactical…

In 216 B.C. Rome went to war against Hannibal and suffered one of the greatest defeats in their history; a battle called Cannae. At Cannae the massive Roman army was surrounded by Hannibal's troops, and during the fighting almost all the Roman soldiers were killed. The news reached Rome, and mothers of soldiers were told that their sons had been killed at Cannae. The stories have it that when the few surviving soldiers came home the mothers were so surprised to see them after thinking they were…

could be called the general who won the battle and lost the war because of his new military formation that would win the Battle of Cannae, his Hellenistic approach to war and his tactics that would later be used against him to end the Second Punic War. Hannibal began the Second Punic War when he attacked the city of Saguntum, which was a Roman ally, and then continued on his conquest and "terrified the Romans by marching troops and war elephants over the Alps into Italy", through northern Italy…

greatest poets during the Augustan Age. Like all epics, The Aeneid uses certain traditional techniques: invocation to the Muse; the beginning in media res (in the middle of things); the catalogue of heroes; epic games; and the symbols. After the Trojan wars demolition, born a great hero, Aeneas, who was searching for his identity and the Romans. The Virgilian epic poem is a paratactic. Aeneas is from Troy, he is the son of Venus and Anchises, and he is the father of Ascanius. Is to say that…

The Greek empire was unorganized and underdeveloped having trouble unifying their group of people as one political group. The Greeks, developing on stony lands, formed on an area with no fertile plains nor irrigating rivers with the mountains separating the entire the land mass into areas with little escape and travel routes. Greece was different than the other european lands around it because of the rocky structure and the people needed to be stronger to survive in the hardships that came with…

fresh water reserves present an unfavorable picture, with only 1% out of 3% accessible for direct human use. This scarcity, fueled by unequal distribution amongst countries caused by geographical and political obstacles, raises the potential of “water wars”. Such concerns are exacerbated by uncontrollable population growth, pollution due to industrialization and modernization, and climate change. A new approach to the sustainable distribution of water is necessary. International cooperation…

It is rare to have wars based solely on religion, although they make up about 40% of all other wars fought. Religious wars are motivated by a higher power or idol that is said to have commanded radical groups to kill in an unjust manner. Ethnic cleansing, for instance, is one aspect of war against religion. The Holocaust, for example, was a war against millions of Jewish men, women, and children were killed because of their ethnic background. Hitler’s affirmation of dominance of his race was…

The culture violence is visible in ways the student’s explain the persistence and prevalence of violent discipline. They point out how their teachers and principals are “always hitting”, “always scolding” and “always angry”. Prevalence is also visible in terms of the places these punishments are enacted. Youth note that teachers who punish do not consider the place nor who witnesses them. Students are subject to punishment inside and outside classrooms. Although, punishments were mostly enacted…