21. One year later the First Punic War erupted. 22. Picenum is best known for siding with Rome against Hannibal during the Punic Wars . 23. Perhaps you might find the articles on Hannibal and the Second Punic War interesting. 24. Rome took control of Carthage after the Third Punic War ( 149 146 ). 25. The next milestone in the development of the army was the Second Punic War . 26. The Carthaginian state declined because of successive defeats by the Romans in the Punic Wars . 27. For this reason, land warfare played a secondary role in the First Punic War . 28. The end of the Punic wars saw an increase in piracy in the western Mediterranean. 29. However, only 32 Quinqueremes were manned at the start of the Second Punic War . 30. However, Roman expansion was delayed for some twenty years by the Second Punic War .
