The Great leap forward was Mao Zedong economic and social policy of modernizing china by 1988.The plan failed to take course because of poor planning, withdrawal of soviet support, natural disaster and the lack of capital. It was refereed to by factions as the giant leap backwards because of the suffering it caused especially through starvation, as it estimated that over 20 million people died.
The Punic Wars were a series of three wars between 264 and 146 BC fought by the states of Rome and Carthage. ... By the terms of the peace treaty Carthage paid large reparations and Sicily was annexed as a Roman province.