Hannibal’s and Mao Zedong’s journeys have several things in common. First, both are long journeys. Hannibal decided to march from Spain to Italy which was a journey of 2,415 kilometers across both the Pyrenees and the Alps. Similarly, Mao Zedong set out to walk from the south to the north of China and it took one year to finish his journey. A second similar thing is that both journey perished a lot of people on the way. Since it was a journey through the Alps, Hannibal’s army died from the snowy mountains. In the same way, Mao Zedong lost lots of his group when they were crossing the Great Snowy Mountains. Lastly, both of these journeys became notable events in history. Even Hannibal was defeated in the wars; he is still known as one of the
