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- Hannibal was the son of the
King of Carthage, Hamilcar Barca. During the First Punic War,
in which Hamilcar fought the Roman Empire for control of Sicily,
the king told his son, Hannibal, to swear to hate and fight the
Roman empire. So after his father’s death, Hannibal was
brought up by his uncle, Hasdrubal. When he was old enough, Hannibal
became the general of the Carthaginian forces in Spain, a colony
of Carthage. When his uncle died, Hannibal took control of the
Carthaginian empire.
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