642. Rome’s Greatest Enemy: Bloodbath in Africa (Part 3)
The Battle of Zama in 202 BC marked the climactic end of the Second Punic War, pitting Rome’s Publius Cornelius Scipio against Carthage’s Hannibal—two undefeated generals whose fates would be sealed in a single, decisive engagement. After 16 years of war, Hannibal, once dominant in Italy, w
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