Marked Carthage

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

Hannibal

Hannibal of Carthage led an army with elephants over the Alps and destroyed Roman armies in Italy, above all at Cannae in 216 BC. He never took Rome, and was beaten at Zama in 202 BC.

Date
247 to 183 BCVI · The classical world
Place
Carthage · Saguntum · Lake Trasimene · Cannae · ZamaAfrica, Europe
Laid out as
A lifeOne person’s life, from birth to death, and what they left behind.
Lessons
6 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

  1. IAn oath as a boy
  2. IIOver the Alps
  3. IIICannae
  4. IVFifteen years in Italy
  5. VZama
  6. VIExile

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Hannibal
  • Hamilcar Barca
  • Scipio Africanus
  • Fabius Maximus

Objects

  • Carthaginian coins with elephants

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

247 BC to 183 BC. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?