The Third Punic War was the last conflict between Rome and Carthage. By the 2nd century BCE Carthage was a commercial city without an empire, but some Roman politicians, notably Cato the Elder, saw its recovery as a danger. When Carthage fought the neighboring Numidian king Masinissa, an ally of Rome, in breach of an earlier treaty, Rome declared war. The city resisted a siege for about three years until Scipio Aemilianus took it, and it was burned and its surviving inhabitants were enslaved. Its territory became the Roman province of Africa, and Rome was left without a rival in the western Mediterranean.
Before and after
- 167 BCERise of Maccabees
- 167 BCERise of Hasmonean dynasty
- from 167 BCE to 160 BCEMaccabean Revolt
- from 2nd century BCE to 2nd centuryProto–Three Kingdoms of Korea
- from 149 BCE to 146 BCEThird Punic War
- from 149 BCE to 146 BCESiege of Carthage
- 147 BCERome destroys Carthage
- from 146 BCE to 330 CERoman Greece
- 145 BCEBirth of Sima Qian
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The era
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