Hannibal crosses the Alps
Elephants cross the mountains and bring war to Italy
At the start of the Second Punic War the Carthaginian general Hannibal led an army with war elephants from Spain across the Alps into Italy. He lost nearly half his men but went on to crush the Romans at the Trebia, Lake Trasimene and Cannae.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Asia
- 221 BC Qin Shi Huang unifies China — 3 years earlier
- c. 214 BC Great Wall of China — 4 years later
- 210 BC Terracotta Army — 8 years later
- 202 BC Founding of the Han dynasty — 16 years later
Alive at the time
- Archimedes (aged 69)
- Qin Shi Huang (aged 41)
- Hannibal (aged 29)
- Eratosthenes (aged 58)
- Liu Bang (Emperor Gaozu of Han) (aged 38)
- Scipio Africanus (aged 18)
- Empress Lü (Lü Zhi) (aged 23)
- Cato the Elder (aged 16)
- Modu Chanyu (aged 16)