Rome’s Greatest Enemy: Bloodbath in Africa (TRIH ep 642, part 3)
202 BCE · Resource
This episode focuses on the climactic confrontation between Hannibal and Scipio — the Battle of Zama — and the concluding phases of the Second Punic War. The hosts discuss Polybius as a key source, Scipio's decision to invade Africa (204 BC), his alliance with Massinissa, and the diplomatic and clandestine tactics used to neutralise Syphax and Hasdrubal.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 202 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)