Why couldn't Carthage defeat Rome? - The History of The Punic Wars - All Parts (264 BC -146 BC)
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- Why couldn't Carthage defeat Rome? - The History of The Punic Wars - All Parts (264 BC -146 BC)
The Carthaginian Empire was a powerhouse spreading across North Africa, Spain, the Balearic Islands, Sardinia, and Corsica. Though technically an amalgamation of Phoenician city-states and only informally an empire, with the city-state of Carthage at the helm, this was the one rival that could truly send a shiver down Roman spines…
Up to this point, Rome and Carthage had been formal friends. They had established alliances, commercial ties, and mutual enemies even. But, when the Roman Republic began to consider taking Sicily for itself, there quickly came to light one inevitable consequence - the Romans would have to fight off the Carthaginian Empire. Nonetheless, after a domino effect of events, such a consequence would come whether Rome wanted it to or not…
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Which one of the 3 Punic Wars was the most important for the future of Rome, in your opinion?
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The second.
ALL OF THE WARS
Elephant slayer Hannibal would say second ofcourse.
I love how in the first war Carthage the sea power lost to the Roman land crabs but then won on land were the Romans was suposed to excel.
If you are going to stick 3 videos together, please level the volume
Lets not forget that despite Carthage's losses, Hannibal still marched elephants through the Alps in what could be one of the most wild moves in military history.
In fact it was really the most wild move in military history hhh
it wasnt a very smart move.
imagine the amount of food elephants required and the constant watch over them, and he ended up only with 3 or 4 by the time he arrived in italy. also lost half his army on the journey to italy. in the end, i believe because of him Carthage fell.
rome would never forgive the thousands of romans he killed.
i think only 1 elephant survived that march lmfao
@@user-rp1vu1gk5u Without such a move he would never get near Rome. Romes allies caused Hannibal massive pains even on such an insane route. He left the Alps with at least 30 elephants as they were recorded at the Battle of Trebbia. Hannibal (personal opinion) is one of the greatest tacticians to have lived. He marched his men through a swamp for 3 days losing many, and even his own eye because he knew no matter what road he took he would lose the coming battle. He would be spotted approaching by scouts which would allow the other legions commander to get there in time, and he would be outnumber. He shocked everyone when he suddenly appeared from nowhere setting fire to all the farms of some of Romes most fertile ground and marched right past the garrison for them to see. He did this because he knew the commander of that garrison was a proud and stubborn man. Sure enough! the commander left the garrison a day after to pursue him. Hannibal moved his entire army in the pitch black up on the mountains while raising no suspicion, and set fires in the distance as if he had made camp, and sat the heavy infantry at a tight pass near the fires to hold the now spread out Roman army. Once the legions were spread out on the narrow road he rained down upon them ambushing an entire army with another entire army. He ambushed every legion he faced, even when they scouted. Rome ran from Hannibal for 15 years, even after all those losses he took. He was better than them and they feared his military genius. Carthage fell because the only true genius was Hannibal! politicians and other military commanders charged with the defense of Carthage were not half the men Hannibal was, and to make it worse Rome sent Scipio to Carthage. A man who was very smart and tactical. Hannibal didn't leave Carthage with the entire army, he left with enough and used his cause against Rome to gather more men on route. They had plenty of a defensive army left. The other generals and men in charge were just incompetent. How can you have a general in another land for 15 years freely roaming, causing mass economic upheaval, eating their food, and causing instability throughout the enemies entire home front disrupting trade, all while their main army where literally running from him! miles from your home .....and still lose? Hannibal was their scapegoat for their own inaction and stupidity.
@@cepheus7391
lmao,
you give way too much credit to Hanibal.
its obvious he had many spies and knew too much information.
It is he alone that caused the fall of Carthage.
Enjoy
I love the foreshadowing of "Rome has a high win rate outside of Italy but a low win rate inside of it."
That's not true though.. they conquered all of Italy beating each of their neighbors like the Samnites who were just as war like as the Roman's. Rome had plenty of wins inside Italy.
When I hear the concept of Italy used in this context I find myself getting rather irate as Italy as we now know it didn't unify as a singular nation state until the 19th century.
It was infact very similar to Greece in the respect of numerous City states that sporadicly and sometimes constantly at was with one another. The empire was distinctly Roman not Italian and the historian who narrated this blog probably doesn't fully understand that even Sicily had similar issues even until the 11th century and beyond when it was more Greek than the mainland as the Normans found out whilst taking it from North African Muslims. Italy to this day is still politically regional, for instance the difference between Milanese in the north are a world away from the Neapolitans in the south
Sorry brother I just wanted to add that the Greeks called the region Italy and the area was only the tip of the boot, it wasn't until Diocletian that central Italy was added and the north like Milan wasn't even considered Italy as was Sicily Sardinia and some other regions were not considered.@@AmericanTough
@@NoelCarroll-wv6qd I did a quick google search and during that time the land is called Italy tho.
@@senurilsvicrai3708 Im not denying that brother, so I'll try to clarify what I mean. The Greeks called it Italy but the local inhabitants didn't, many saw themselves as Roman. For instance it was an honour to get Roman citizenship, not Italian. Similar situations would be Rome calling Israel Palestine but the Jews always called it Israel, the three regions called Judea Samaria and Galilee. I'm Irish so we know historically that Tacitus referred to the land as Hibernia ( the cold or dark land ) hence the word hibernate, but the Ancient Celts never knew such a name existed, We simply had four regions or provinces, Ulster, Munster, Leinster and Connaught.
Hannibal taught Rome how effective properly executed tactics and strategy can do. In a way he help build Rome.
The biggest irony about Hannibal is how his military career ended. Fighting for another empire in naval combat(which he was terribly suited for).
One of the greatest generals in history went out with a whimper.
No he underestimated the will of the Romans
The Carthaginian senator, Hanno II, refused to send any reinforcements to Hannibal in Italy.
Carthage really regretted that during the 3rd war.
it's a testament to a historical truism that a country united wins wars, and one divided does not.
Carthage didn’t have the ability to send supplies to Hannibal at that point. Their fleet from the 1st war was gone, and Rome had absolute naval superiority.
If Carthage had engaged in massive military spending before the war and built up a navy with experienced sailors, then maybe Hannibal could’ve been supported, but without that fleet? Not a chance.
Also, Hannibal’s Italian Front’s importance gets inflated quite a bit when talking about the Second Punic War. The REAL war was fought in Iberia, which was a long slog fest, and one of many reasons for Rome’s total victory over their Punic rivals.
Carthage couldn't? The Roman was still in control of the sea, and 2 brothers of Hannibal did tried to reinforcements him 1 of them even crossing the alps and both of them got cut down before even meeting Hannibal
Thanks, i didn't wanted to wait for oversimplified
Knowledgia is better to watch anyway
@joshygoldiem_j2799 both have their pros and cons. Regardless, I like to watch both of their channels
@@wastelander4015 for me, channels like Knowledgia and Kings and Generals or even smaller creators tend to be more straightforward and down-to-earth in their presentation of information without much concern for entertainment value, which is what I prefer.
@@joshygoldiem_j2799 understandable, I like Knowledgia for the reasons you mentioned and also they post more often. Oversimplified I like because of a mix of entertainment and an overview of the topic at hand.
What were you waiting for? This happened thousands of years ago...
Rome was lucky. Geographically but also insane amount of wealth, resources and most importantly man power. Hannibal killed over 200 000 roman soldiers, rome loses thousands at sea, yet they still have an army in spain and around 80 to 100k men in italy. Anyone can be great when they have that kind of advantage.
Carthage had similar number of troops, they were just not a unified state but a conglomeration of many city states that all fought for their pwn interests. They ignored Hannibal destroying Rome from inside when they could have sent reinforcements in fear of his influence and power had he won the war
Being one a penninsula also had mny advantages
those wealth and resource didn't came from thin air, they conquest of land with military power made those lands. The Carthage was also much richer than the Roman with trade
So please armchair historian, sit down
Rome started as one of the many barbarian cities in the middle of Italy. they had to fight for their advantages. They didn't just get lucky and start with them.
The Second Punic War (218 to 201 BC) was the second of three wars fought between Carthage and Rome, the two main powers of the western Mediterranean in the 3rd century BC. For 17 years the two states struggled for supremacy, primarily in Italy and Iberia, but also on the islands of Sicily and Sardinia and, towards the end of the war, in North Africa. After immense materiel and human losses on both sides, the Carthaginians were defeated.
From what I understand, there were only two Italian cities that sided with Hannibal during the Second Punic War, namely Capua and Taranto. Both of these cities were heavily punished at the end of the war. All the inhabitants of the city of Taranto, including women and children, were employed for life in the salt mines.
probably an old wifes tale like salting the soil of carthage
'employed for life'
@@Chromium457'For low pay'
@@freddyswso just like half of human population.
@@rizkyadiyanto7922 I think they were paid even lower
Carthage lost because of (1) its own deep structure of power. Hannibal was an outsider, a land general disconnected from the maritime power and political power. The Carthage power was focused on trade and not on military. The rise of Hannibal family was considered an internal threat and so Hannibal was not supported in his actions. (2)In defense Carthage didn't had in depth defense - was heavily dependent on its marine; (3) Carthage didn't have the commitment to win this war. Carthage didn't envisioned ever to destroy Rome to the ground, just to subdue and to trade from superior position. (4) Human resources - this is debatable, Roma had the superiority but with alliances Hannibal could match this. (5) Carthage missed the opportunity to make alliances by consider them equals; Rome allows his allies to become romans.
Too bad literally none of this was in the video, which is titled "Why couldn't Carthage defeat Rome". Sad, when a comment does more to try to answer the actual question, when the video didn't go into ANY of the why's, and just told us what happened.
Everyone gangsta till they have to siege roma walls with out anyone to open them the door from inside 😂
@@Fearmylogic I get what u saying fam, but the video kinda does answer why.... why didnt carthage beat rome? Cause this happened ----> video
Ik yall wanted the actual answer, the subjective factors that answer why things went the way the went
Well said
I think #3 and #5 are the most critical here. Carthage didn't have that dog in them like Rome did, and it showed in each of the wars. Just as important was the fact that their close allies shot them in the back a lot
One of the core elements I cover when discussing the Punuc Wars is how the wars showed the amazing ability of Rome to adapt and adopt, and solve problems. I have a very cute video of my 4 year old discussing the 2nd punic war
I didn't know Roman legions are US Marines?! Lol...Adapt and Overcome. OORAH! Thank you very much 😊
Definitely more adaptable under the republic. I feel they lost a bit of that when transitioning to the empire.
@@Bloodnut4life Not immediately but gradually. Rome expanded the most under Augustus.
I wonder what the world would have looked like today had Carthage won the Punic wars?
Not much different. If Carthage won the wars probably just created some colonies in Italy and Spain. But the romans eventually would come back and won again and again. Just to put it in context, Carthage won in fact a lot of wars before the Rome was a thing. Their internal structure didn't allow it to become a larger empire. You need to be able to incorporate the "others" as "romans". All tribes from Italy becomes romans, gauls becomes romans, etc. The neighbors of Cartagena didn't become Carthaginians. The same issue had it the other enemies of Rome. The only way of wining is to make the enemies your friend (or kill them all). Romans did that both.
The Battle of Zama was very decisive for western civilization.
If Rome would have lost that battle, there will be no Spain no France no Britain no European no USA all that will not be.
@@Red-90
Rome was never destroyed it transitioned
@@Red-90
It’s called Christianity
Carthage and Venice (the republic) were quite similar in that they cared way more about profit than empire building. These merchant states rarely held onto large swathes of land because it was never their priority. I wager Carthage wouldnt have ever beaten Rome, but if they did i douby they would have had an impact on the world like Rome did
Thank you for the refreshing history lesson. I've studied Punic wars back then and it was massive! Thank you for clearing it up somehow 😉☺️
Fantastic video!
Great video.
Some inconsistency in volume as I had to keep adjusting up and down.
the pubic hair wars are one of my favorite historical subjects
The pun wars were lamer
@@_Ben___ thats eude
They were major entanglements.
Great. I WANT MORE CARTHAGE PLEASE
Odd that the great victories of C.Scipio in Spain are barely mentioned.
Regarding, "Hannibal"...as his guidance counselor, I think the kid has potential.
We did some aptitude tests and I think I've narrowed down his career choices to cook, or General. Will be interesting to see which he settles on...
Thank you. History is awesome. 😅😅😅😅
Wow!!!The Punic Wars were daring of course and the Roman Empire was the powerful empire I have ever seen in my life,good friends!!!:-D
"Delenda est Carthago”
Edit: A guy named Cato told me that
you gotta give Romans applaud for never surrendering. never giving up
Romans: Damn we have too many people
What Hannibal did at Cannae was Brilliant. Drawing in heavier numbers into a trap where on both sides they were attacked then the rear closed with what Rome thought was retreated cavalry
Excellent!!!
Hannibal couldn’t conquer Rome (the city). Besides the very costly venture he was totally isolated from his homeland. No logistics, no replenishment. Carthage only managed to send Hannibal’s brother (Asdrubale) to his rescue , but alas he was intercepted and killed.
The only strategy open to Hannibal was the isolation of Rome from its Allie’s and vassals but even that did not work.
Also to recruit Romes enemies and rivals to the east but that didn't work either, the Macedonians never came nor did the Greek cities
Carthages government refused to help Hannibal. That’s the reason he was unable to do anything more. They feared his influence and did not want to help him anymore with his victories over in Italy for fear of what he would become when he came back.
@@BangThatGong Was very shortsighted of them not thinking what Rome would do if they ever arrived to Carthage's shores.
Another great video! I uploaded a video on Sicily today 😅
Something sounds off with your audio. Did you intend to record it this loud, or did you use some other method to increase the volume before posting? in my opinion you need to use a de-esser to make it sound more pleasing at that level and cut back the loudness at least a little bit. And no people just turning down their volume doesnt fix the issue. It's really noticeable after completing your Story of Vlad series. Anway, just some constructive criticism, big fan of this type of history.
great
Rome wasn't perfect, but relative to that time, Rome had more flexibility and a power structure that seemed to be less centralized and more merit based than Carthage's fragmented mercantile culture of self interest. Carthage had money, and resources, but Rome had a unifying idea of what Rome was and pragmatically knew how to disseminate it to other members of its hegemony.
They had a very strong sense of unity, purpose and society which is whats so fascinating about them, so early in human history yet so "civilized", not to forget their archicture and technology
Liberty? Only for nobles. They were more civilized only when it comes to unity of society, architecture and military.
Nice video
Rome always seem able to pull troops out their ass in abundance.
Italia is good land. Their population must've been huge.
Till 900-1000AD Italy was the most populated place in Europe. Italy was helped by warm roman era, Sicily was the breadbasket of Italy. Now in Sicily they plant just oranges and lemons
Rome just kept fighting.
The main reason rome won is because they did not believe in giving up and was willing to go as far as it took to get to where they were going I tell people sometimes how far will you go for who you are and what you believe in how far will you go.
Rome won being more barbariac Hannibal left Rome and let it be and survive unlike the savages who committed ethnic genocide
@TeeSpells Hahahaha which is why Rome survived first as a republic and then as an empire for over a thousand years, completely influenced the Mediterranean and the whole Western World as well as putting the basis for laws, principles and engineering ideas that we still use? Are you dumb?
Lets not beat around the bush, this is a Europa Barbarorum tutorial.
Jokes aside, a wonderful presentation as always
One day your city exists, the next day some old geezer name Cato takes a morning stroll in your gloriously beautiful and wealthy city and takes it personally
The Punic Wars are like Star Wars. And like Star Wars, we get to see all the different parts of the trilogy...
La narración tiene detalles interesantes, como el bombardeo y avistamiento que hicieron los B 17
I brought my tissues and i'm ready to watch till the end ( i will not cry ) .
Romans were such badasses
If Alexander hadn't died so young, spent a year networking his empire and levying, he had designs to turn west. If he had done so, Rome never would have even become a thing.
The later much weaker Macedon had several chances to defeat Rome, but made hilariously boneheaded decisions both on the battlefield, and at home when the armies were out.
Carthage obviously had chances.
It's amazing how small moments shape the course of history.
SIDE NOTE: How does every channel covering ancient history have access to maps and military boxes and general icons and such (without using Photoshop)? Is there some sort of secret historical software out there??
They all had chances and LOST.
Alexander knew better!!
Why do you assume Alexander would've not been defeated you if he went west or south into Arabia.
The main reason Rome lost the 2nd Punic war was when Hannibal sent his brother Mago to Carthage to request reinforcements, he was met with displease by Hanno II, the wealthiest aristocrat in Carthage.
Hanno II feared that if Hannibal defeated Rome, he would become the Emperor of the Mediterranean. Placing Hannibal above him in authority.
He rejected the proposal by saying" If Hannibal is so good at winning against Rome, then why is he requesting reinforcements".
He further insisted that they should establish peace with Rome instead of war.
He was also accused of helping the Romans build their fleet while he kept the Carthaginian navy at bay to buy some time for Rome to complete their fleet.
Also, he bribed aristocrats who were in favor of Hannibal and made every possible move to prevent reinforcements to Hannibal.
This was the main turning point of the war and Rome took advantage of this situation.
They knew Hannibal would not attempt to attack Rome so they assigned Scipio Africanus to attack Spain and force Hannibal out of Italy.
That’s incorrect. The reinforcements that were meant for Hannibal were later diverted to Spain because the Carthaginians were on the verge of losing their Iberian territory and alliances there after several heavy losses to the Romans
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Odd that the sea battle of Ecnomus is not mentioned. A Roman victory and some ascribe it as being the largest naval battle in terms of ships and manpower the world has ever seen.
Battle of Ecnomus dont even come close to biggest battle in number of ships, but manpower for sure.
"doesn't" not don't. Ecnomus featured (according to Wikipedia) 330 ships and 140K men for Roman, 350 ships and 150K for Carthage. Leyte Gulf featured (according to Wikipedia) 330 ships for the Americans, 67 ships for the Japanese. Not even an approximate difference. Ecnomus is recognized by at least 5 other video streams as the largest sea battle in history.
@@DesertAres Battle of Artemisium and Salamis had almost twice the number of ships
@@jimmyandersson9938yea but Rome destroyed Greece so, Roman battles> Greek battles
16:12
Varro probably didn't wear _lorica segmentata/ but _lorica hamata_ and probably a bronze helmet.
This is the best example of “tactics wins battles, logistics and strategy wins wars”. Rome was more unified and determined in their will to win and a distinct sense of being Roman. The Carthaginians just didn’t have the will and commitment nor unity to win. They were a mess of self serving merchants too focused on their own advancements. The Romans would’ve been extremely precarious had Hannibal and the senate coordinated and cooperated with each other.
Romans had their self serving individuals but they collectively knew what had to been done when it really mattered.
Nice! more videos about ancient and medieval world please! I would like to see Ancient Greeks and then Viking raids on this channel :D
Because Carthage existed.
There. I saved you 32 min.
The Roman's were more tenacious and some lucky suprise attacks during the wars helped a bit.
They lacked cohesion and focus. They refused to go all in when Hannibal had Rome on its back foot. Meanwhile Rome focused on gong all in as they always did
Struggling between Romen Empire and Carthaginian ..punic wars tooks several deeply clashes....on Aebrian peninsula and northern Italy..Hannibal threatened rome capital itself...Romance invaded Carthage and imposed its conditions on Carthaginian state...Carthage became subdued vassals while nombedians skirmishes was humbled Carthaginian...
This just goes to show how important cavalry was, because without it Hannibal would've lost the battle of cannae.
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam!
Hannibal : FIGHT M-
Rome : *Nuh uh*
The reason the cartaginian had not the capacity to defeat Rome was something they didn't undestood. Carthago used the defeated nation as a source of mercenary. Rome was totally different. When the romans conquered another town or country, they forbidden them from the possession of an army but obliged them to sends every year some young man to Rome and be trained to become part of a roman legion they had to wow loyalty to Rome and fight for at least 10 year under the simbol of Rome. This legionaries has in some way installed in to them the loyalty to Rome. When they got back to their town, they bringed the loialty to Rome back with them. That's why the social war was fought . 60 years after the 3rd punic War, the italian 'soci' fought against Rome to get citizenship . They won, and Rome gave them citizenship. Annibal hoped in an Italian rebellion against the roman .he was thinking as a cartaginian he didn't understood that the relationship of the Italian peoples with the romans was different.
24:30 "who spared over". I think you mean "who sparred over".
Because the Romans kept coming and fighting regardless of battle defeats
That’s
Tough to beat
My dogs name is Scipio for Scipio Africanus. He, Hannibal, and Robert E.Lee are my 3 favorite military commanders!
"It was at this point Carthage had had enough"
With the privilege of hindsight, I think Hannibal only last small chance to defeat Rome was to leave the Peninsula once battle of Metaurus happend. With Hasdrubal gone and no possibilty to get reinforcements from gaul anymore, Carthage understandble unwillingness not to send any due to Roman naval superiority and invasions in Hispania along with Hannibals inability to close the deal in Rome he should have went back to Hispania and aided there before it fell. Easy to say now but I still think you could argue a smart general would see he cant achieve nothing more on the peninsula at this point.
Maybe Hannibal could have played the long game instead, slowly but steady weaken Rome using his superior skill as a commander, but how he would solve the biggest problem of all which is named Scipio, I dont know.
Except the soviets in world war two there's no nation in history suffered such defeats and casualties like the Romans suffered in the first three years against Hannibal , so Hannibal had already reached his limits against Rome .
Why Carthage couldn't defeat Rome ? 2 main reasons for that
First the population of Rome is six time the population of Carthage
Second reason is because the Roman army was composed by citizens soldiers instead of the Carthaginians full of mercenaries .
And yet the Punic wars were a formidable extraordinary fight .
In these wars we saw the biggest naval battle in history before the age of gun powder ( battle of derpana ), we saw the crossing of the Alps the most wild move , the biggest ambush in history , Cannae , the extraordinary come back of the Romans in the two first wars , and finally in the last stand of Carthage how the Carthaginians women's cutted their hairs to made ship robes and their mass suicide after the surrender crying " fire and not the shame"
@@ziedhmili7196 If you wanna find worse defeats than what Hannibal did to Rome you should look at the mongol expansion. Khwarazmian empire lost around 80-90 % of its population for example. When they invaded Jin / song ( china ) their population was 1 to 100 but still managed to conquer it.
Battle of Derpana is no way near biggest naval battle, the largest are Ecnomus, Artemesia and Salamis.
@@jimmyandersson9938 the mongols killed civilians , womens and children's and they destroyed the irrigation systems in persia and Iraq which caused famines. The casualties of the Romans were military casualties.
That's the difference , I agree with you that the amount of casualties in the Mongolian conquest were horrible but in terms of military casualties the Roman losses were horrible
@@jimmyandersson9938 about derpana , I was wrong, I meant the battle of cape ecnomus .
Both battles were in the first Punic war.
Battle cape ecnomus was the biggest in history in terms of military personnel and crew.
Hannibal is for Mr better than scipio
Oversimplified just got silenced
Has been for years innit?
Carthage, while rich, relied too much on mercenaries. Romans seemed to have been much more united as people. Hannibal didn't get much support from his own government.
What lessons should the American World Empire take away from the Punic Wars, and the Carthage vs Rome conflicts in particular?
American World Empire🤨?
Yes, I think that pretty well describes it.
You have the United States of America, and it's interests, and then you have the American World Empire and it's interests, which are often quite different things.
Geroge Washington summed up the foreign policy of the United States as "No entangling foreign alliances."
A more recent President of the United States summed up the foreign policy for the United States even more concisely ---- "America First."
The foreign policy interests of the American World Empire are quite different from the foreign policy interests of the United States.
Does that help answer the question mark you posed?
@@SeattlePioneer No it doesnt lmao.You are just admiting that the US wants to rule the world.
Yes, that is the am bition of far too many of the leaders of the United States: the ambition to tell everyone else in the world what they must and must not do.
It is not my ambition for the United States. My ambition is for the United States to abandon the American World Empire and return to being the United States of America, with the ambition of having no entangling alliances. Or, as a recent American President proposed ---- "America First."
Let the world sort out it's own problems. I can guarantee you that it will.
I always need a good laugh anyway.
The same reason they killed Ceasar at first. Then after they lost spain they had to focus on Carthage defense. So going with this frame of mine. You could conclude that he thought he could defeat rome by himself. Ignored his chances to escape and lead his country to ruin. As an overall leader. Not a very good one. As a raider he was successful but didn't know when to quit raiding.
It's quite simple. They were a trade nation while Rome already was a military power.
Carthage had no real army and relied heavily on mercenaries while Rome had a military culture.
And this was the cause for many mistakes Carthage made. Like the half hearted support of it's armies.
Who is Chabar Barca ?
Inter family rivalries refused to support Hannibal. That’s why they didn’t win. Glad that worked out for them.
Stupid question, how did a Spartan end up fighting for Carthage? Mercenaries?
Carthage completely destroyed because of one man. you know his name.
Hannibal Barca🇱🇧
Short answer: because Hannibal was stupid enough to trap himself and the majority of Carthage’s military behind enemy lines with no way to actually win the war.
Because Hannibal didn't know how to use a victory
Scipio Africanus 🐐
Profited from Massinissa's treachery and Carthagian congress' idiocy.
@@blutherhood3893Scipio conquered all of Hannibal’s holdings in Spain, that’s where Hannibal’s resources and men came from…. Never lost and then beat Hannibal. Scipio is superior.
Rome had the guts to do enything even early reverse engineering enemy weapons
قرطاج العظيمة سقطت بسبب الخيانة و عدم الاستعداد السريع بعد الحرب الاولى
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@@dtttmr964قرطاج هي الي خانت هانيبال و مابغاتش تدعمو
@@zakariadjouadi1611 ماسينيسا النوميدي هو اللي تسبب في سقوك قرطاج، كان بإمكان هانيبال يرجع ليها قوتها.
Lets see who's better oversimplified or knowledgia
The 3rd was just Rome being petty
I’m sorry but I have to complain about the photo for this video. During carthages entire time as an empire Rome never had conquered Macedonia or any Greek territories, that was after the third Punic war
Because Hannibal knew how to gain a victory, but not what to do with it...
Hannibal new how to gain a victory, but his country and its leaders didn't help him do anything with it.
@@bhbluebird Livy quotes Maharbal as saying, "You know, Hannibal, how to win a fight; you do not know how to use your victory (Livy 151)."
^ This is what my comment was referring to.
Except the soviets in world war two there's no nation in history suffered such defeats and casualties like the Romans suffered in the first three years against Hannibal , so Hannibal had already reached his limits against Rome .
Why Carthage couldn't defeat Rome ? 2 main reasons for that
First the population of Rome is six time the population of Carthage
Second reason is because the Roman army was composed by citizens soldiers instead of the Carthaginians full of mercenaries .
And yet the Punic wars were a formidable extraordinary fight .
In these wars we saw the biggest naval battle in history before the age of gun powder ( battle of derpana ), we saw the crossing of the Alps the most wild move , the biggest ambush in history , Cannae , the extraordinary come back of the Romans in the two first wars , and finally in the last stand of Carthage how the Carthaginians women's cutted their hairs to made ship robes and their mass suicide after the surrender crying " fire and not the shame".
I think they lost because their merchant class was motivated by money but Rome was motivated by nation building
Romans broke the Ebro treaty first which was the cause of Second Punic War not the other way around like this video may suggest.
No Siege craft!
Why Carthage couldn't conquer Rome?? Because Rome NEVER HEARD NO BELL!! 💪
Biggest instigators, them mercenaries.
Carthage was always bound to lose: their flag was a person surrendering.
I had the same thought xD
Outside of Hannibal and his troops, the Romans were just better at waging war than the Carthaginians. And they were also less politically divided.
3rd punic war was a genocide, not a war, trying to defend their territory from an invading force, Rome committed war crimes by attacking Carthage in that weakened state.
It's not like they did'nt anounce their planned genocide on a daily basis
Ultimately I think it came down to a lack of manpower and population.
I heard Hamilcar was assassinated.
Couldve eqsily crushed rome but some historians think he was too passive. He never eanted to crush rome, he just wanted ti force rhem to terms however rome wanted carthage crushed.
Hannibal never had the chance to crush rome once they changed tactic to not do open battle. He didnt have resources , skill nor knowledge to siege Rome, most of its allies refused to leave Rome which made him wander around the peninsula for over a decade without doing much while Carthage getting mauled in Hispania.
Hannibal absolutely hated Rome and would most likely kill / enslave every living soul in the city if he got the chance. Rome making peace with Carthage after Zama speaks against your claim they wanted the city crushed.
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Rome fell because it abandoned logic, reason and competency in leadership.
It descended into moral and cultural decline in Rome. Leaders indulged themselves in depravity and excess..
Scipio probably told Hannibal that he was gonna make his bitch ass pay
Hannibal probably mocked him
Scipio probably told him "Just watch me give you an ass-kicking history will remember" before going to battle
Thats how i picture it anyway, had to be something along these lines considering how they both hated each other lol
That’s what happens when you gain naval superiority and then completely disband it and not finish the job.
Kingdom of numidia 🇩🇿 proud of my great history
راك فخور بماسينيسا الخائن اللي تسبب بسقوط قرطاج، و الماسايسيل موطنهم الأصلي من الغرب جاو من المنطقة اللي سماوها الرومان موريطانيا الطنجية و أسسوا مع الخرين مملكة موريطانيا و إنفصلت موريطانيا .
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Sounds like something Syrians would say.
I think it's too late now to say that to Rome and Carthage.
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The Carthage empire were Arabs? This encompasses most of north Africa except Egypt. Can someone clarify this for me? I worked 15.5 years in Kuwait 🇰🇼, so Arab history is important to me. Shukkran.
Yes
the word Carthage is the Romanized word for Qrt Hdsht which means "Modern Village" in Arabic and Canaanite (or so-called Phoenician in Western sources)
Canaanites (so-called Phoenician in Western sources) migrated from the Southern Arabian peninsula to Levant, there they built their first empires and then went all over the Mediteranean including modern-Tunisia where they built their famous City and Empire Carthage.
@@branis96 I appreciate your reply. Very helpful.
No, Carthage was Punic, Phoenicians and Berbers had no relation to the Arabs at all...and Numidia is a Berber kingdom in Algeria today. Google is free
@@dtttmr964 Explain your end reply "Google is free?" This is nonsequitor. Your reply is credible until your weirdo remark. Are you implying I am an idiot? Explain please.
@byronharano2391 carthage wasn't even arab there were Phoenicians
lets go
Carthage did not have a unified dedicated leadership. A Republic of merchants and pirates . At the place where Carthage was located, it never faced strong opposition from various enemies. Only Numidians presented some threat, but not that much. The army they had was composed of mercenaries and Republic always looked at them with suspicion. All that taken together undermined long-term conquering effort. Why did pirates of the Caribbean fail to seize Texas? Because pirates never cared about land acquisition. Carthaginian were pretty much the same. Why bother to build an army, it is cheaper to buy it...