Hamilcar Barca put down the revolt and compensated for the loss of Sicilian possessions by undertaking conquest in Spain, a conquest continued by Hasdrubal. Immediately after the First Punic War a great uprising of the mercenaries occurred (240–238). The first of these wars (264–241) cost Carthage all remaining hold on Sicily.
BC Rome challenged Carthage's control of the W Mediterranean in the Punic Wars (so called after the Roman name for the Carthaginians, Poeni, i.e., Phoenicians).
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