Intro (Who, When, Where)
Hannibal Barca was a Punic Carthaginian military leader. He was born in the second century BCE and lived until the third. 247 BCE to 183 BCE to be exact. He was born in Carthage, which is present day Tunisia, and die in Libyssa, present day Turkey.
About (What, Why)
Hannibal was the son of the Carthaginian general, Hamilcar Barca, shown on the right. At a very young age, Hannibal's father Hamilcar made him swear eternal hostility towards Rome, since his father hated Rome as well. At the age of 26, Hannibal was given charge of a Carthaginian army, and he immediately set out to gain Carthaginian control of Iberia. He then married an Iberian princess named Imilce, and allied with many Iberian tribes, giving him more power. As Hannibal's hatred for the Roman empire grew, he attacked Saguntum, present day Sagunto in Spain, which then started the Second Punic War.
Map
This is a map of Carthage. Carthage is a suburb city of Tunis, Tunisia
Video
This is a video that explains Hannibal (there are three parts).
Primary Source
[Thatcher Introduction]: ROME, with the end of the third Punic war, 146 B. C., had completely conquered the last of the civilized world. The best authority for this period of her history is Polybius. He was born in Arcadia, in 204 B. C., and died in 122 B. C. Polybius was an officer of the Achaean League, which sought by federating the Peloponnesus to make it strong enough to keep its independence against the Romans, but Rome was already too strong to be resisted, and arresting a thousand of the most influential members, sent them to Italy to await trial for conspiracy. Polybius had the good fortune, during seventeen years exile, to be allowed to live with the Scipios. He was present at the destructions of Carthage and Corinth, in 146 B. C., and did more than anyone else to get the Greeks to accept the inevitable Roman rule. Polybius is the most reliable, but not the most brilliant, of ancient historians.