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Punic Wars - Part I - Prelude

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The Strategic Situation of Carthage and Rome

The Romans were willing to evolve. If they didn't have this capacity to actually learn and try new things, they probably wouldn't have done quite so well during the Punic Wars. Fyrus is somebody that I personally find really interesting, but at the same time I kind of feel sorry for the guy. In the grand pantheon of would-be my Glomaniacs, he's the guy that kind of gets the Booby Prize. This is a man that in the year 297 BCE became the king of an area northwestern Greece known as Iperus because that's what Magnomaniacs do.

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