Read 4.2 Wars of the Republic, do assignments 1, 2, 4, 5
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The punic wars
Rome vs. Carthage
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Punic derives from the Latin poenus and punicus, which were used mostly to refer to the Carthaginians and other western Phoenicians. In modern scholarship, the term 'Punic' is exclusively used to refer to Phoenicians in the Western Mediterranean.