Editing 202 BC (section)

==== Carthage ====
* Accused of [[treason]] by the [[Carthage|Carthaginians]] after being defeated by the [[Roman Republic|Romans]] at the [[Battle of the Great Plains]], [[Hasdrubal Gisco]] commits suicide to avoid being [[Lynching|lynched]] by a Carthaginian mob.
* [[October 19]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Zama]] (130 kilometers south-west of Carthage) ends the [[Second Punic War]] and largely destroys the power of Carthage. Roman and [[Numidia]]n forces under the leadership of the Roman general [[Scipio Africanus|Publius Cornelius Scipio]] and his Numidian ally, [[Masinissa]], defeat a combined army of Carthaginians and their Numidian allies under the command of [[Hannibal]] and force Carthage to capitulate. Hannibal loses 20,000 men in the defeat, but he is able to escape Masinissa's pursuit.<ref name=leglay>{{cite book | title=A History of Rome | edition=Second | first1=Marcel | last1=LeGlay | first2=Jean-Louis | last2=Voisin | first3=Yann | last3=Le Bohec | page=79 | publisher=Blackwell | place=Malden, Massachusetts | year=2001 | isbn=0-631-21858-0}}</ref>