The Punic Wars were a series of three wars fought betweenRome and Carthage from 264 BC to 146 BC. At the time, they were probably the largestwars 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.
<span>Vespucci realized the land he was exploring was a separate continent and not part of Asia, as he and many others believed at the time. The continents of North and South America are named after him.</span>
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