What barred french and british warships from american ports?
a. declaration of war

b. proclamation of neutrality

c. treaty of britain

d. treaty of paris

the romans were initially interested in expansion via sicily (which at that time was a cultural melting pot), part of which lay under carthaginian control. at the start of the first punic war (264-241 bc), carthage was the dominant power of the western mediterranean, with an extensive maritime empire