They sowed Carthage with salt as a symbolic victory gesture which said they had conquered the city and its empire and it would never grow to prominence again.
Salt. It was a symbolic ceremony with a sprinkle of salt to declare the land would be barren. However twenty years later they established a military colony on the site to resettle veterans.
After the fall of Carthage, the Romans gained dominance over the Mediterranean. It was at this time that they could actually be called a super power.
Punicus was their word for Phoenician, which had established Carthage as a colony in North Africa.
Carthage did not defeat Numidia. When she raised an army to defend herself, she was defeated by the Numidians. Then the Romans declared war and destroyed Carthage.
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That is a fairy story - where would you find all that salt? They symbolically put salt in a plough furrow, and after selling the people into slavery, resettled their retired military veterans there.
They had a religious ceremony where they spread salt in a short plough farrow to declare a symbolic end to Carthage as a city-state, after selling its people into slavery.
They made a symbolic plough furrow and scattered salt in it, to declare the Carthage was gone,for good and then sold its people into slavery. They then used the city as a site to settle retired veterans and it became a Roman city.
The Romans completely destroyed Carthage, leaving not one stone standing atop another, sold the populace into slavery. They spread salt symbolically on a field to emphasis that Carthage could not rise again.
The Romans destroyed Carthage in 146 BC.
The story is nonsense - shortly afterwards Rome began settling retired veterans on farms in Carthage. The Romans conducted a religious ceremony ploughing a furrow and sprinkling some salt in it as a symbol of the end of Carthage, whose people were sold into slavery. Also think of the prohibitive cost of valuable salt in spreading hundreds of tone of salt over a large agricultural area! Don't believe fairy stories, however much they are repeated.
The Romans persevered over Carthage .
149-146BC
Romans and Carthage
146 BCE.
Salt. It was a symbolic ceremony with a sprinkle of salt to declare the land would be barren. However twenty years later they established a military colony on the site to resettle veterans.
After the fall of Carthage, the Romans gained dominance over the Mediterranean. It was at this time that they could actually be called a super power.