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218 BC
 
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Hannibal crosses the Alps with his elephants, beginning the Second Punic War       
217 BC
 
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Hannibal surprises and traps a Roman army on a narrow plain beside Lake Trasimene       
216 BC
 
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Hannibal destroys a Roman army at Cannae, in the most severe defeat ever suffered by Rome       
202 BC
 
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Hannibal suffers his first decisive defeat by a Roman army, at an unidentified site in north Africa called Zama       
201 BC
 
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Carthaginian Spain is handed over to Rome to become two new provinces, at the end of the Second Punic War      
149 BC
 
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Rome picks a quarrel with Carthage to begin the Third Punic War     
146 BC
 
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Carthage is destroyed by the Romans at the end of the Third Punic War