পিউনিক যুদ্ধসমূহ: সংশোধিত সংস্করণের মধ্যে পার্থক্য

== পিউনিক যুদ্ধসমূহ ==

[[Imageচিত্র:Rome_carthage_218.jpg|right|thumb|400px|দ্বিতীয় পিউনিক যুদ্ধের শুরুতে রোম ও কার্থেজ সাম্রাজ্যের বিস্তৃতি]]

With no military, Carthage suffered raids from its neighbour [[Numidia]], and under the terms of the Roman treaty, such disputes were arbitrated by the [[Roman Senate]]. As Numidia was a favored "client state" of Rome, Roman rulings were slanted heavily in Numidian favor. After some fifty years of this condition, Carthage managed to discharge its war indemnity, and considered itself no longer bound by the restrictions of the treaty, although Rome believed otherwise. It mustered an army to repel Numidian forces, and immediately lost a war with Numidia, placing themselves in further debt, this time to Numidia.

In [[149 BC]], in an attempt to draw Carthage into open conflict, Rome made a series of escalating demands, one being the surrender of three hundred children of the nobility as hostages, and finally ending with the near-impossible demand that the city be demolished and re-built away from the coast, deeper into Africa. The Carthaginians refused this last demand and Rome declared the [[Third Punic War]]. Having previously relied on mercenaries to fight their wars for them, the Carthaginians were forced into a more active role in the defense of their city. They made thousands of makeshift weapons in a short amount of time, even using women's hair for catapult strings, and were able to hold off an initial Roman attack. The Carthiginians finally found a fighting vigor that was effective. Citizens fought for their life, rather than mercenaries fighting for money. A second offensive under the command of [[Scipio Aemilianus]] resulted in a three-year siege before he breached the walls, sacked the city, and systematically burned Carthage to the ground. The surviving Carthaginians were sold into slavery, and Carthage ceased to exist, until [[Augustus|Octavian]] rebuilt the city as a Roman veterans' colony over a century later.

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* [http://www.redrampant.com/roma/punicwars.html পিউনিক যুদ্ধের সময়রেখা]

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