The final entry in the Oversimplified second Punic war series. Will knock your togas off. | dG1fODA1U0lxZ0RaSUU
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00:00War between the two superpowers seemed inevitable, so if you put a very strategically important island between them, 2 plus 2 equals war.
00:18Sicily was an island. Islands are surrounded by water.
00:22Charge!
00:27I guess we're just gonna have to go ahead and build ourselves a war fleet, aren't we?
00:31From scratch?
00:36From scratch.
00:38They developed ingenious new ways of waging war.
00:41They attempted an invasion of the Carthaginian heartland.
00:45Look at this thing! It's unbelievable!
00:47And whenever disasters struck them, they always came back, again and again.
00:54The Romans have built another fleet.
00:56Oh, for goodness sake!
00:57The Carthaginians later sent possibly the greatest military general of the time, a man named Hamilcar Barca, to the island.
01:06But in the end, it was Roman determination that won the fight.
01:10I just don't care!
01:12And you have to pay us 2,200 talents of silver, over the next 20 years.
01:17Ay caramba! That will cripple us!
01:20One day, Carthage will have its revenge!
01:25My beautiful son!
01:30You!
01:32Are!
01:34Vengeance!
01:36Ah!
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01:47Stupid chickens!
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