Punic wars The punic wars were a series of wars between carthage and rome.the wars happened in different times and places and were called the "punic" wars because the romans called the carthageinians "Poeni".The first of the three wars started in 246 BC, and the last of the three ended in 146 BC. The first war was 23 years long. The second war was 17 and finally the last war was 3 years. The first war (264-241 BC) …showed first 75 words of 617 total…

…showed last 75 words of 617 total…-146 BC, originated in a deliberate Roman aggression, the result of agitation by Cato the Elder for the destruction of Carthage. Charging Carthage with a technical breach of treaty in resisting the encroachment of the Numidian king Masinissa (a Roman ally), Rome declared war and blockaded the city. Carthage never surrendered. The younger Scipio conquered it, house by house, and sold the surviving inhabitants into slavery. The city was razed and its site plowed up.