Ibrahim Hannibal was born in Lagon, northern Ethiopia. He was born in 1697 and died on May 14, 1781 in Suida, or present-day Leningrad Oblast. He was the son of an Ethiopian prince and was taken hostage by the Arab slave traders. He was then shipped to Moscow in 1706 where he was sold into slavery and Tsar Peter (a.k.a. Peter the Great) and his wife (Christina Queen of Poland) adopted him. They got him baptized when he was eight years old and instead of treating Hannibal like a slave brought as a present, the Tsar and Queen treated Ibrahim as they would their own child. The Tsar and queen as changed his name from Ibrahim to Abraham.…
Hannibal resumed his siege of Saguntum and conquered it after a terrible and costly siege. Hannibal, although he held preeminence in Carthage, still had to rely on his allies to keep him in power. A delegate was sent to Rome to answer a question regarding whether Hannibal had acted on his own or had the approval of the Carthaginian senate. The delegate, according to Livy, was the best orator in Carthage. He quickly quashed the argument regarding the border of Hasdrubal because the Carthaginian council had not been part of the talks. Furthermore, he argued that the Romans had broken the treaty after the First War by invading Sardinia; finally, he stated that Hannibal broke no treaty because the Saguntines did not have an alliance with Rome when the treaty between Hasdrubal formed. However, the Romans did not care about that, they wanted peace or war. The Carthaginians declared the Romans needed to choose, and the Romans chose the later. At this critical juncture, Carthage still held with Hannibal and wanted to help him.…
Hannibal was born in 247 B.C. and from an earlier age, he was taught by his father, who was also a Carthaginian general, to hate the Romans. Hannibal, at the age of 26, attacked Sagunto Spain with the army he was given. This was the invasion that started the second Punic War. Hannibal took an army of over 100,00 men with him and 37 elephants with him over the Pyrenees and Alps. This long journey covered over 1,000 miles. Hannibal…
While the Carthaginian government make some valid points in their explanation of the blame for the Second Punic War Hannibal. Both they and Hannibal can be seen to share the responsibility for Carthage’s defeat in the Second Punic War. Hannibal’s quixotic plot to attack Rome without a veritable intention to destroy her left Carthage stranded in a war that would ultimately turn against her. However, the circumstances and misfortunes faced in a war on foreign soil against the might of Rome can at times be seen as beyond Hannibal’s control.…
This act caused Hannibal to leave Italy and return to Africa to fight Scipio. In 202 BC…
From a snapshot of the Second Punic War, the Carthaginians defeated the Romans while under the consul of Gaius Flaminius. The battle is considered one of the largest and most successful ambushes in military history. The battle consisted of around 50,000 Carthaginian soldiers versus about 30,000 Roman soldiers. The aftermath of the battle produced well over 15,000+ lost soldiers for the Roman army while Hannibal only lost approximately 2,500 of his own. Despite the overview of the battle, much more can be examined when looking at the events leading up to the brilliant ambush set by…
One general, wreaking havoc throughout the Roman lands was known as Hannibal Barca. Following in his father’s footsteps as a superior military general, he challenged Rome in battle every chance he could. After several attempts of coaxing Rome into battle he achieves a decent victory at the Battle of Trasimene in 217…
The second war started in 218 BC and ended in 201 BC. The leader of the Carthage in this war was the general hannibal, who also made a daring cross in the middle of the winter to attack Rome. He brought elephants with him when he attacked Rome.…
Hannibal Barca was one of the greatest Generals of his time. Although his abilities at developing battle strategies were unequaled in his day, the driving forces behind his successes as a general, were not only his superior military ability, but also his feelings of hostility toward the Romans. Because of his ability to plan and organize military campaigns he was able to succeed in crossing thousands of troops across the Alps to invade Italy. Hannibal, son of General Hamilcar Barca, showed hostility toward the Romans due to the fact that he had been indoctrinated in the theology of the Carthaginian god Baal. This indoctrination along with the fact that Rome and Carthage were enemies only served to fuel his hostility and aggression.…
Scipio got his reputation as a great general through defeating the Carthaginian general Hannibal. In 210 B.C. When Rome decided to send reinforcements to the battlefield in Spain there was no senior general willing to head down there, so Scipio volunteered to lead the fight against Carthage.In 211 B.C., Scipio was put in charge of Rome's forces in Spain, Two years later, he took the city of Carthago Nova. In 208 B.C. At the Battle of Baecula Scipio defeated Hasdrubal (Hannibal's brother), who fled to Italy with some of his troops. Scipio defeated the rest of the Carthaginian forces in Spain retaking it for Rome in 206 B.C. He next planned to take his forces to Africa after being elected consul in 205 B.C. but ran into some opposition from the Roman government. He then traveled to North Africa with as many troops as he could muster to fight Hannibal. Hannibal’s government then called him back to protect carthage. Scipio and Hannibal finally faced each other in the Battle of Zama In 202 bc, during the battle the Roman soldiers sounded horns which frightened the carthaginian elephants causing them to…
In A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, Bartolomé de Las Casas vividly describes the brutality wrought on the natives in the Americas by the Europeans primarily for the purpose of proclaiming and spreading the Christian faith. Las Casas originally intended this account to reach the royal administration of Spain; however, it soon found its way into the hands of many international readers, especially after translation. Bartolomé de Las Casas illustrates an extremely graphic and grim reality to his readers using literary methods such as characterization, imagery, amplification, authorial intrusion and the invocation of providence while trying to appeal to the sympathies of his audience about such atrocities.…
Doodle, a young boy, is the scarlet ibis with his limp legs and a small body that is easily broken by stress and pain. “He was all head with a tiny body which was red and shriveled like and old man’s” (Hurst 428). Doodle was clearly a premature baby and could not walk because of his weak heart. As a three month old he was both physically and emotionally detached from the family. Since they thought he was going to die after birth they had a coffin made. But when he lived they kept him in the front room on a rubber sheet.…
In the epic, Odyssey, Homer presents both Calypso and Circe as goddesses who employ not only their divine powers, but also the power of seduction used by mortal women, to hold captive the hero, Odysseus.…
started in 218 BC and lasted until 201 BC. This was also the most fascinating. It was the Carthaginians bitterness over the agreement from the first war, and the expansion following the years after it that brought on this war. Part of this expansion was the taking of Corsica and Sardinia from Carthage in the year of 237 BC. From 237 to 219 Hannibal, son of Hamilicar, and Hasdrubal,…
The Roman Empire declined and fell because of politics. However, the empire was strong at a point until the third century crisis happened. The last emperor before the crisis began was Marcus Aurelius, and the empire went from peaceful and Pax Romana to catastrophe and they called it “the anarchy.” There were both internal and external conflicts throughout the empire. The external problems were the violations of the borders by the Germanic tribes and, “full-scale war with Sassanian Persian Empire on eastern border,” (Nardo). There were also leadership conflicts because if barbarians were to attack, there wouldn’t be a leader to make order. Since barbarians did attack, it made Rome weak when…