Hannibal’s journey and Mao Zedong’s journey have several similarities and differences. Fundamentally, their objectives were escaping from the area they used to live because there were many bloody wars took place in that period. They marched to prepare themselves for fighting against their foes. However, Hannibal had already made the decision to dwell from Spain to Italy while Mao had not determined the destination yet, in fact, Mao was forced to leave their base. As a result of the unsettled journey of Mao led to longer period of travelling time comparing to Hannibal’s which was only five months. Secondly, both of them lost their crews during the itinerary.
