The Punic WarThe Punic War

Keep your friends close and your enemies even closer!

Warm up Question!!

Finish this thought……Finish this thought……

Imagine you are out to eat with your family. There is one piece of pizza left, and you believe it is clearly yours. You and your brother/sister eye each other from across the table, and then…

The Roman Enemy!The Roman Enemy!

Knowing your Enemy is ½ the Battle!!

Phoenician sea traders from the middle East

Original Phoenician Homeland & the area they took over

Founding Carthage

1. 800 B.C.E. Phoenician sea traders founded Carthage on Africa’s Northern Coast (Carthaginians)

2. They were mighty sailors

It is called the Punic War

because the Romans called

Carthaginians , “Punici” after their

Phoenician heritage.

What does Rome and Carthage have in common?

It is your time to be heard!

• Archaeologists have dug up a journal dating back to the time of the Punic Wars. This journal discusses in massive detail and with astounding artwork what really happened to three different men in the Punic Wars!

Pages 274-276 in your textbookhttp://www.crystalinks.com/punicwars.html

Take out your diary, 3 HPOY, and parent signature and be ready to turn them in.

Questions for pages 278 - 279

1. People in Rome were ruled by mostly what type of people?

2. The majority of the people in Rome were?

3. Problems with the small farms?

4. New labor on the latifundas was?

5. What did the poor have to do with their farms and families?

6. The government won plebeian votes by?

7. Would this work for you, if you had all the plebeian problems?

8. Why did the reforms fail?

9. Did rich people ever try to help?

10. Who helped out the poor people in the army?

11. What was the problem having the army in politics?