2. PART B: Which of the following quotes best supports the answer to Part A?
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A. "According to legend, Hannibal's father, Hamilcar Barca (the great Carthaginian
general of the First Punic War) made his son swear an oath of enmity towards
Rome for life. Hannibal allegedly took this oath and, throughout his campaigns
against the Romans, made good on it." (Paragraph 2)
B. "Following the First Punic War, Rome set about the task of unifying Italy under
Roman rule. They subdued the Gauls and, through the Ebro Treaty with
Hasdrubal the Fair, secured the boundary between Rome and Carthage's
empires in Spain at the Ebro River." (Paragraph 3)
C. "He did not have enough men to take Rome and, even if he had, did not possess
the power to hold it. He, like his father before him, was constantly asking
Carthage for help in winning their war for them and, just as they had with
Hamilcar Barca, Carthage refused." (Paragraph 9)
D. "When Scipio invaded North Africa from Sicily in 205 B. C., Hannibal was called
home, thus losing all the ground he'd gained in Italy." (Paragraph 10)