Hannibal Barca
247 BCE–183 BCE · Carthage
Hannibal was a Carthaginian general during the Second Punic War against Rome (218–201 BCE). In one of history's boldest campaigns he led an army, including war elephants, over the Alps into Italy, where he defeated Roman forces most famously at Cannae in 216 BCE. Despite years of campaigning in the Italian peninsula he could not take the city of Rome, and was finally defeated by Scipio at Zama in 202 BCE. He later served Carthage as a statesman and died in exile around 183 BCE.
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What they did here
Hannibal was born in 247 BCE at Carthage, the North African city near modern Tunis, as the eldest son of the Carthaginian general Hamilcar Barca. He spent his earliest years there before his father took him to the Iberian Peninsula.
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- Antiochus III the Great· 242 BCE–187 BCE
- Emperor Gaozu of Han (Liu Bang)· 256 BCE–195 BCE
- Attalus I of Pergamon· 269 BCE–197 BCE
- Qin Shi Huang· 259 BCE–210 BCE
- Antiochus IV Epiphanes· 215 BCE–164 BCE
- Emperor Wen of Han· 202 BCE–157 BCE
- Mithridates I of Parthia· 195 BCE–132 BCE
- Ashoka the Great· 304 BCE–232 BCE
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