Who were the Carthaginains?

Answer 1

A Carthaginian is a native of ancient Carthage. Carthage was founded by the Phoenicians and grew into an empire on its own, with territories in Africa, Sicily, and Spain. After Rome won the Punic Wars it absorbed all of Carthage's territories.

Answer 2

The Ancient Carthaginians originated as a colony of the Phoenician city of Tyre in the first millennium BCE. According to Ancient Roman sources, the city was founded by Queen Elissa (also known as "Dido") and a group of colonists from Tyre around 814 BCE. Over the century the city would shed its mantle as a colony and become the full fledged center of its own empire the "Punic Empire", which eventually fell after conflict with Ancient Rome.

Answer 3

Descendants of the Phoenicians who established a city-state in North Africa (Tunisia) and established a trading empire.

Answer 4

Their ability to run a great trading empire in the Western Mediterranean.

Answer 5

They were descendents of the Phoenician city of Tyre, which originally established it as a trading colony in the 9th Century BCE.

Answer 6

They were part of the Phoenician culture of the Middle East (as were the Philistines mentioned in the Old Testament of the Bible).

Answer 7

They were Phoenicians.

Answer 8

Carthage