帕特森以古代世界开始，探讨了罗马获得主宰地位，尤其是他们在布匿战争中击败迦太基人的流行解释。

Paterson begins in the ancient world, considering popular explanations for the ascendance of Rome and, in particular, their victory over Carthage in the Punic Wars.

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这是当地一种古老的运输方式，已经有数百年历史，可追溯到第一次布匿战争期间，当时的汉尼拔就曾使用大象。

Supplies and some of its personnel aboard the powerful, plodding elephants which are a form of native transport dating back centuries to Hannibal during the First Punic War.(AP Photo/Horst Faas)

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也就不曾失去过这些地区：前211年罗马重新夺取了卡普阿，因它在第二次布匿战争(前218 - 201年)支持汉尼拔而惩罚了这个城市(没有彻底摧毁)。

And did not lose them: Capua was punished (not completely destroyed) in 211 BC for its support of Hannibal in the Second Punic War (218-201 BC) after Rome recaptured the city.

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