Original sentence: At the start of the first Punic War, Carthage was the ascendant power of the Mediterranean, with an extensive maritime empire, while Rome was rapidly rising in prominence as the dominant power in Italy.By the conclusion of the third war, Rome had conquered Carthage's entire empire and razed the city itself to the ground, becoming in the process the most powerful state of the Mediterranean
Edited sentence: The First Punic War was simply a war in which the Romans wanted to conquer Sicily.The other Punic Wars were simply designed to punish the other side for taking over