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Carthage. Carthage was a major maritime and economic power controlling much of the western and southern mediterreanean, until it was defeated and destroyed in 146bc by the army of the roman republic under scipio aemilianus.

it was really the three punic wars (poeni being the latin for the carthaginians as Carthage was origionally a phonecian colony) that turned rome into a serious military power.

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