Battle of Zama

1. Herodotus wrote the history of the Persian War
• Known as the father of history
• For the first time we have someone who writes a systematic sequence of historical events, particularly the Persian Wars
• He went to many different places to find historical events to record
2. Thucydides
• Lived close to the age of Aristotle
• Wrote the history of the Peloponnesian War
• Much better at recording history than Herodotus
3. Livy
• Roman historian
• Writes the history of Rome from the beginning with Romulus and Remus all the way up to his time during the time of the emperor Augustus
4. Carthaginians send in their elephants towards the Romans
5. The Romans blow the horns, thus scaring the elephants backs into the Carthaginians
6. The Carthaginians are forced to retreat