To keep everything in order
No, it wasn't wise. It basically started the war. War was pretty much inevitable at this point but it was the straw that broke the camel's back.
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The Punic Wars were a series of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage from 264 BC to 146 BC. At the time, they were some of the largest wars that had ever taken place. The term Punic comes from the Latin word Punicus (or Poenicus), meaning "Carthaginian", with reference to the Carthaginians' Phoenician ancestry.
