Timeline

POD

 * 19 October 209 BC* The Battle of Zama turns the tide of the Second Punic War against Rome
 * 207 BC* Rome is sacked by Carthage
 * 206 BC* Pax Carthagenum is declared (Alcalem Qart-hadasht).
 * 205 BC* Rome focuses on the Adriatic and concludes the Treaty of Phoenice, with Carthage at the negotiating table, as well.
 * 200 BC* Carthage is drawn into the Second Macedonian War, and is aided by turncoat Titus Quinctius Flamininus who had abandoned Rome at the end of the Second Punic War for a ruling position in Tarash, newly founded capital of Carthaginian power in the italic peninsula.
 * 200 BC* Cisalpine Gaul is lost to the Romans following the Battle of Cremona. Carthaginian generals advised and trained the troops of Hamilcar in exchange for Gaulic fealty, thus hemming in Rome on the North and South.