Rome’s Greatest Enemy: Carthage at the Gates (TRIH eps 640-643)
211 BCE–146 BCE · Resource
A four-part series on the later Punic Wars: Hannibal's failure to march on Rome after Cannae, the rise of Scipio, the Battle of Zama and the end of the Second Punic War, and the eventual destruction of Carthage.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 211 BCE
- Second Punic War (218 BCE)
- Fall of the Roman Republic (133 BCE)
- Qin Shi Huang unifies China (221 BCE)
- Han dynasty (202 BCE)
- Punic Wars (264 BCE)
- Euclid's Elements (300 BCE)
- Reign of Ashoka the Great (268 BCE)
- Great Wall of China (Qin) (221 BCE)
- Han open the Silk Road (130 BCE)
- Terracotta Army buried (210 BCE)