Hannibal
c. 247 BC – 183 BC · 64 years · Carthage · Africa
Crossed the Alps with elephants and crushed Rome at Cannae in the Second Punic War; defeated by Scipio at Zama.
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Portrait: Fratelli Alinari · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Archimedes — mathematician, physicist and engineer, 40 years older
- Scipio Africanus — Roman general, 11 years younger
- Cato the Elder — Roman statesman and writer, 13 years younger
Africa
- Eratosthenes — scholar, head of the Library of Alexandria, 29 years older
Asia
- Qin Shi Huang — first emperor of China, 12 years older
- Liu Bang (Emperor Gaozu of Han) — founder of the Han dynasty, 9 years older
- Ashoka — Maurya emperor, 57 years older
- Empress Lü (Lü Zhi) — Han empress and regent, 6 years younger
- Modu Chanyu — chanyu, founder of the Xiongnu empire, 13 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 221 BC Qin Shi Huang unifies China — aged 26, Asia
- 218 BC Hannibal crosses the Alps — aged 29, Europe
- 216 BC Battle of Cannae — aged 31, Europe
- c. 214 BC Great Wall of China — aged 33, Asia
- 210 BC Terracotta Army — aged 37, Asia
- 202 BC Founding of the Han dynasty — aged 45, Asia