Answer:
1- A dispute between Rome and Carthage over the island of Sicily.
2- A Roman fleet badly defeated Carthage's navy off the coast of Sicily.
3- Hannibal defeated the Romans at the Battle of Cannae in southern Italy.
4- In 146 BC Rome finally destroyed Carthage and controlled a large portion of the Mediterranean region. Shortly thereafter, Rome started to control parts of Asia.
Explanation:
The Punic Wars were the wars between Carthage and the Roman Republic, which came into conflict when their expansionist interests met in the western half of the Mediterranean.
The First Punic War took place between 264 and 241 BC, mainly in Sicily. During this conflict, Rome annexed Sicily to its territories, thus obtaining control of the center of the Mediterranean Sea.
The Second Punic War, which occurred between 218 and 201 BC, took place mainly on the Italian and Iberian Peninsula. On the European continent Hannibal Barca inflicted serious defeats on the Romans, but after the Roman invasion of North Africa, Carthage was finally defeated.
Finally, the Third Punic War occurred between 149 and 146 BC. This war was a three-year siege of Carthage by the Romans and ended with the capture and total destruction of the city, definitively consolidating Rome's control of the Mediterranean.
