aug 1, 220 BC - 220 BC - Rome sends emmisaries to Spain to again see what Barcids up to, meet Hannibal

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In 220 Hannibal slowly tightened his control over the territory around the city segundum. alarmed, the second times send increasingly persistent requests for assistance from their Ally rome. eventually come after much prevarication, the Roman senate dispatched envoys to Parlay with the bars in general. once again, the carthaginian Council of Elders was sidelined as the Roman Embassy made its way directly to spain. the meeting that was held in the great palace a new Carthage was very different from the one six years previously when the hard pressed Romans had played for Time by and the words of bolivia's, flattering and conciliating. the young General was solemnly worn not to attempt anything that would harm rooms allies second to, as its citizens lay within the Roman trust / fides. It was perhaps the hypocrisy of the ambassador's pious reference to Roman fee days which riled Hannibal into retaliation. the young General retorted that Rome itself had not delayed an interfering in the Affairs of segundum, including the driving out and execution of pro carthaginian members of its elite. he did literally turn the whole question of faithfulness back on to the romans: would not overlook this violation of good faith for it was from old the principle of Carthage never to neglect the cause of the victims of injustice. Hannibal did not even gain Dimension the second room in demand, that he respect has your rules agreement not to cross the hibernus and he dismissed the envoys who then sailed to Carthage to make their protest there. Hannibal's rather high-handed treatment of the Roman Ambassador surely gives an indication of his growing confidence in the bars that position in spain. after all the resources that is disposal were greater than any carthaginian general that had previously enjoyed. now Hannibal controlled almost half of the Iberian Peninsula and area of roughly 230,000 Square kilometers. he didn't hear it in excellent fighting force of 60,000 infantry, 8000 cavalry, and 200 elephants, honed by over 16 years of campaigning against the determinant ferocious enemy. a series of alliances of powerful cultivarian tribes that added to his military strength. huge mining production meant that there was enough money to meet work costs. a later Roman writer estimated the one mind at Bay bello, who shafts ran for more than a Roman mile and a half into the mountain produced enormous 135 kg of silver a day for hannibal. indeed the wait and purity of the silver pointage that was being produced for the troops was a reflection of robust economic health

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