 And it begins looking to expand into some of the islands in the central Mediterranean, most importantly, Sicily. And this brings it eventually into conflict with Carthage. And so the First Punic War is a war in which a naval power that has the ability to fight on land but doesn't like to do it particularly, and a land power that doesn't really have the ability to fight on sea, somehow come into a conflict with each other over the islands in the central Mediterranean.