Who initiated the Third Punic War? a. Cosinga Palpatine b. Cato the Elder c. Philip II of Macedonia. d. Cornelius Scipius Africanus e. Hannibal of Carthage

The good option here can only be:

d. Cornelius Scipius Africanus.

Explanation:

Rome started the Third Punic War because it saw a good opportunity to destroy Carthage once and for all. Though he did not start it, consul Cornelius Scipius Africanus took charge of the siege of Carthage in 147 BCE and perfected it. The last all-out attack came in 146 BCE, a bloody and mercilles battle that went on for over a week. Carthage fell and was wiped out of the face of Earth.