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The 23 pages that link to First Punic War, each with the reason it gives.

• Diodorus SiculusRelated: Diodorus’s surviving fragments provide evidence for the conflict’s Sicilian setting.

• Roman provincesRelated: Its outcome gave Rome its first overseas province, Sicily.

• Pyrrhus of EpirusRelated: Pyrrhus’s unsuccessful Sicilian campaign preceded the Roman-Carthaginian struggle for the island.

• Hannibal's Crossing of the AlpsRelated: Its outcome left Carthage seeking power and resources beyond Sicily.

• Roman navyRelated: The war forced Rome to build a large fleet to challenge Carthaginian control at sea.

• Carthaginian navyRelated: The war turned naval control into a decisive contest and ended with Carthage’s defeat at sea.

• Gnaeus NaeviusRelated: Naevius’s epic used this war as a central historical subject.

• First Servile WarRelated: Its outcome brought Sicily under Roman control and reshaped the island’s economy.

• Sicilian WarsRelated: Rome's intervention in a Sicilian conflict expanded the rivalry into a Mediterranean war.

• GelonRelated: The later Roman-Carthaginian struggle continued the island’s long history of rivalry.

• Hiero II of SyracuseRelated: Hiero’s alliance with Rome shaped Syracuse’s role in this war.

• Quintus Fabius PictorRelated: The conflict formed part of the recent past Fabius Pictor could recount.

• Roman conquest of the Iberian PeninsulaRelated: Carthage’s loss of Sicily encouraged its expansion into Iberia.