Summarize "differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another?

the answer to your question is

the treaty of hopewell

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