146 BCE.
It destroyed the city and sold the people into slavery to end its rivalry for once and all. It then had priests symbolically sprinkle salt on a short furrow of a plough to declare that the Carthaginians were ended. The story of salting the land is a silly wild exaggeration - the cost of scarce salt was prohibitive, and the Romans soon established a colony of retired army veterans on the land.
Rome achieved its aim of dominating the Western Mediterranean by eliminating the Carthaginians, in a 'Final Solution' Rome sold the defeated Carthaginians into slavery so that they could no longer be a competitor.
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.
Carthaginians
The Carthaginians were Phoenicians, their city established by Tyre.
Sold them into slavery.
Rome sold its people into slavery and turned it into a colony to resettle retired war veterans.
Rome sold the Carthaginians into slavery to end their further competition in the Western Mediterranean.
Killed them or sold them into slavery.
They fought over 120 years for control of the Western Mediterranean. Rome won and sold the Carthaginians into slavery s a 'final solution'.
It destroyed the city and sold the people into slavery to end its rivalry for once and all. It then had priests symbolically sprinkle salt on a short furrow of a plough to declare that the Carthaginians were ended. The story of salting the land is a silly wild exaggeration - the cost of scarce salt was prohibitive, and the Romans soon established a colony of retired army veterans on the land.
Rome achieved its aim of dominating the Western Mediterranean by eliminating the Carthaginians, in a 'Final Solution' Rome sold the defeated Carthaginians into slavery so that they could no longer be a competitor.
Rome had to get rid of its rival in the Western Mediterranean - Carthage - and after three bitter wars, won completely and sold the Carthaginians into slavery so that the way ahead was completely clear.
He was killed by homicide in war against the Carthaginians.
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 Greek victors, who took their loot home, the Trojans who were not killed by were sold into slavery, and the inhabitants of the other states who also survived.
Carthaginians. The city was a colony set up by the Phoenicians from today's Lebanon. Today the site of Carthage is in Tunisia, and there are still people with Carthaginian names about, even though the people were sold into slavery in 146 BCE after the Romans defeated them for the third and final time.