Answer:
Rome won the three Punic Wars, but it was in the third one when it finally defeated Carthage.
Step-by-step explanation:
Punic Wars broke out by the annexation by Rome of the Magna Graecia, in the south of the Italian peninsula, but the main cause of the confrontation between both was the conflict of interests between the colonies of Carthage and the expansion of the Republic of Rome. The first clash occurred on the island of Sicily, partially under Carthaginian control. At the beginning of the first Punic War, Carthage was the dominant power in the western Mediterranean Sea, controlling an extensive maritime empire, while Rome was the emerging power in the center of the Italian peninsula. At the end of the third Punic war, and after decades of conflict, Rome conquered all the Carthaginian possessions and razed the city of Carthage, its capital, with which the Carthaginian faction disappeared from history.