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Rome destroyed Carthage's power by winning the Three Punic Wars these two cities fought against each other.

With the first war, Rome took over the Carthaginian possessions in western Sicily, and Sardinia and Corsica, which belonged to Carthage. These islands were important for the control of the trade routes of the western basin of the Mediterranean. They also built a fleet which in the second war proved to be the most powerful navy in the western Mediterranean.

With the second war, Rome took over the Carthaginian possessions in southern Spain. The silver mines of this area were the main source of Carthage's wealth. The Romans also made an alliance with the Numidians who were Carthage's next door neighbours, they lived in Algeria, and who defected to Rome.

In the third war Rome destroyed Carthage and took over her remaining territories, the home ones, Tunisia and western Libya.

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