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| - After Hannibal Barca (also known as Hannibal the Lion, Hannibal the Great, Hannibal the Conqueror, and Hannibal of Roma (but some consider that a derogatory term) conquered Roma in 210 BC, the second Phoenician War was over. Carthago had won, and the Imperium Romanum was no imperium any more, for its Caesar and parts of its Senate had been killed.
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| - After Hannibal Barca (also known as Hannibal the Lion, Hannibal the Great, Hannibal the Conqueror, and Hannibal of Roma (but some consider that a derogatory term) conquered Roma in 210 BC, the second Phoenician War was over. Carthago had won, and the Imperium Romanum was no imperium any more, for its Caesar and parts of its Senate had been killed. Indeed, Romanum crumbled and fragmented into competing city states, and Hannibal urged the Barca family to send more troops to Romanum. While the council and the suffets were against it, they were a minor power, for the Barca family ruled Carthago, and Hannibal finally got reinforcements. Eventually, the Peninsula Roma (also known as the Peninsula Romanum, the Romanum Peninsula, or the Roma Peninsula) was occupied by Hannibal and his troops, and others, and slowly the core of the imperium became part of Carthago. The allies of Carthago were rewarded, and those who had joined or helped the imperium were hunted and destroyed. But while the core of the imperium had fallen, various cities had formed alliances and pacts with each other, and the possessions in Hispania were threatened by this. In the Peninsula Roma, there were many troops to keep the peace and thus no one dared to move against Carthago there, indeed, Carthago took over the whole Peninsula Roma with little to no resistance, but in Hispania, only a small amount of troops were located. That is why Hannibal and his new army was sent to Hispania, to conquer the resisting city states. The city states, which had no legion and only a few professional soldiers, were no match for Hannibal and by 209 BC, Carthago was a giant super power. The tribes in Europa did not invade Carthago's possessions in Hispania or the Peninsula Roma because they were friendly toward Carthago, and some even allied with them and helped them to defeat the imperium. While Greece eyed all this with a wary eye, there seemed to be no army coming toward them, despite Philippos V's urgings and besides the Carthago-Makedonia treaty. Carthago merely resumed trading and doing like it had done before the imperium declared war, but now from the position of an actively expanding super power, and with the help of barbarians should the need arise. And it claimed the rebels weren't yet fully rooted out.
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