The colonists <span>never accepted the constitutionality of the duty on </span>tea<span>, and the </span>Tea Act<span> rekindled their opposition to it. Their resistance culminated in the Boston </span>Tea<span> Party on December 16, </span>1773<span>, in which </span>colonists<span> boarded East India Company ships and dumped their loads of </span>tea<span> overboard.</span>
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.
