From village to Empire (Hannibal)

-While Hannibal and his troops were crossing the river, horses were towed behind the boats.
-One man on each side of the stern(严肃) to guide the horses.
-As the Hannibal had expected, the Gaulish tribesmen came out of their camp.
-But Hannibal's advance party rushed in to attack them and they ran away.
-The elephants then crossed on HUGE RAFTS covered with EARTH & GRASS.

-He ordered fires to be lit in his camp.
-left most of his army there & led his BEST soldiers to ambush the Allobrogians.
-Snow was falling heavily up the Alps,he saw his men were in low spirits , cos they had suffered much.

-Those stepped wide of the path fell down the cliff to certain death.
-Hannibal ordered his soldiers to cut a path out of the snow.
-A DAY later the path is wide enough for the packhorses and animals to get through.
-Anyways, it took 3 days for the elephantS to get through.

-After staying in Italy for 15 years, Hannibal was ordered home to help defend Carthage from the Romans.
-202 BC, near Carthage, he was defeated by the Roman general -> called Scipio.
-Carthaginians were beaten.
-So the landS in Southern SPAIN were taken by Rome.

-Just in 70 years,after the defeat of Hannibal, Macedonia(now south-east Europe), Greece and Asia Minor(part of Modern Turkey) came under Roman rule.
-Egypt was under Roman's influence.
-Some of the countries that were conquered by the Romans became provinces.
-Provinces= an area that is governed as a part of a country on an Empire.