Rome fought three wars against Carthage, the Three Punic War. Each war had different reasons.
The First Punic War developed into a contest over the control of Sicily after the Romans intervened in eastern Sicily to help some mercenaries who has seized a city there. They also defeated Syracuse, the most powerful of the Greek city states in eastern and southern Sicily, and forced her to become a Roman ally. This worried the Carthaginians who had possessions in western Sicily and who mobilised for war.
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The First Punic War developed into a contest over the control of Sicily after the Romans intervened in eastern Sicily to help some mercenaries who has seized a city there. They also defeated Syracuse, the most powerful of the Greek city states in eastern and southern Sicily, and forced her to become a Roman ally. This worried the Carthaginians who had possessions in western Sicily and who mobilised for war.
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In the Second Punic War, Hannibal, a military commander and the ruler of the Carthaginian possessions in southern Spain, invaded Italy. He wasted to take Rome as a revenge for the first war.
Rome fought the Third Punic War to destroy Carthage.
