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069: The Second Punic War - Hannibal at the Gates

The Hellenistic Age Podcast

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The Battle of Canai

A number of southern italian communities soon betrayed the romans and joined hannibal. This gave hannibal access to the most productive farmland in the entirety of italy, as a base to stage his operations. He was able to form an alliance with the king of macedonia, philip the fifth, who was able to iterer with roman interests across the adriatic. The so called first macedonian war would be fought between two 14 and two o five. And for our purposes, we will avoid speaking about this event until we progress further along in the show.

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