It was established on a bay on the coast of today's Tunisia by the Phoenician city of Tyre as a trading post in the early 800s BCE, grew into a city and gained independence in the 600s BCE and established its own trading posts in the Western Mediterranean.

The ancient city of Carthage is in modern day Tunisia, which is in Africa. There are not a lot of historical records for Carthage, but it was said to be a place of great wealth.

Carthage was not in Ancient Rome. It was in Tunisia and fought three wars against Rome. Carthage did not have any special weapons. It had a fleet which, together with those of the Greeks, was one of the most powerful in the Mediterranean and it had highly skilled sailors.

Rome fought three wars against Carthage, the Three Punic War. Each war had different reasons.

The First Punic War developed into a contest over the control of Sicily after the Romans intervened in eastern Sicily to help some mercenaries who has seized a city there. They also defeated Syracuse, the most powerful of the Greek city states in eastern and southern Sicily, and forced her to become a Roman ally. This worried the Carthaginians who had possessions in western Sicily and who mobilised for war.

In the Second Punic War, Hannibal, a military commander and the ruler of the Carthaginian possessions in southern Spain, invaded Italy. He wasted to take Rome as a revenge for the first war.

Rome fought the Third Punic War to destroy Carthage.

Initially over Carthage's expansion in Spain, but overall it became a struggle for control of the Western Mediterranean.

NO. The Carthaginians were not Arabs since they were a mix of indigenous North Africans or Amazigh (Berbers), Black Africans from the Interior, and the Phoenician Traders who built the city. While the Phoenicians are from what is now Lebanon, Syria, and Israel, they were not Arab as the Arabs at that point in history lived only in Arabia. Since Amazigh are not Arab, Africans are not Arab, and Phoenicians are not Arab, any mix of the three in any ratio would not be Arab.

Unknown, but it was probably not too different from what was worn in Rome. In 203 AD, Carthage was a Roman city built by the Romans. Old Carthage was buried a short distance away; destroyed by the Romans three and a half centuries earlier, and the surviving ten percent of its population was sold into slavery. Only a few years ago was the exact location of the original Carthage found. In 439 AD the Vandals captured the Roman city of Carthage, and certainly the style of clothing changed once again.

Th effects of the rivalry between Carthage and Rome for trade control in the Mediterranean was three wars with Rome being victorious in all of them. After the second of the wars Rome effectively controlled the entire western Mediterranean.

They were competitors for superiority in the Western Mediterranean area. After winning each of the first two Punic Wars, Rome imposed heavy penalties on the Carthaginians, but the latter were such successful traders they bounced back. Rome decided to end them for good and after winning the 3rd Punic War, destroyed the city and sold the surviving population into slavery.

Yes he was born in carthage.

A consequence of the Second Punic war and the enslavement of 50,000 Carthaginians when Rome destroyed Carthage in the Third Punic War (146 BC) and of 150,000 Epirotes after the Third Macedonian War (168 BC) was that many small farmers lost their land.

The Roman army was a levy of small farmers who returned to their farms after a military campaigning season. Prolonged military service beyond a single campaigning season in the Second Punic War caused many of these farmers to have to neglect their farms. The owners of large landed estates took advantage of this to buy land on the cheap. The flood of slaves on the slave market in Rome provided these large landowners with an ample supply of labour. The greater number of slaves were bought by them. Abundant salve labour made the expansion of their estates easier. As a result, many small farmers lost their land. This had two ramifications. One was that the dispossessed farmers flocked to Rome to eke out a living, swelling the masses on unemployed or underemployed poor. The other were shortages of recruits for the army because soldiers had to own land. These problems were tackled by Tiberius Gracchus who introduced a land reform to redistribute land to the landless poor (133 BC) and Gaius Gracchus, who in 122 BC introduced a grain dole in which the state distributed grain to the poor at subsidised prices (later it was given for free). The land reform was insufficient. Eventually, in 107 BC Gaius Marius abolished the property threshold for the military levy, made joining the army voluntary and open to the landless poor to overcome the mentioned shortages. The poor flocked to the army for a career, a pay and the grant of a plot of land to farm on discharge.

Another problem was in Spain. After the Romans defeated the Carthaginians in Spain during the Second Punic War they took over their territories in the south and much of the east coast. After the war Rome decided to remain in Spain and created two Roman provinces there. This caused continuous resistance against the Roman presence in Spain by the local tribes. The Romans had to fight countless battles and lost many thousands of men. Because of this many soldiers stayed in Spain for six years and after this they had to be resettled. The high death toll also made many young men reluctant to join the levy. At times they found excuses to dodge it. This made the recruitment shortages worse.

It is not clear whether at the beginning of the Roman military action in Sicily a war between Rome and Carthage had been expected.

The war was started by tension created in northeastern Sicily by mercenaries called the Mamertines. They seized the city of Messana, on the strait between Sicily and the mainland on in the northeast of the island, killed all the men and took the women as their wives. They then started raiding the nearby area. This provoked a reaction from the Greek city of Syracuse, also on the east coast, which was the most powerful city-state in the island. In the east and south of Sicily there were Greek city-states.

The Mamartines appealed for help to both Rome and Carthage, which had five ports in western Sicily. Carthage accepted to help, but also imposed a Carthaginian Garrison in Messana. The Mamertines asked Rome for help again.

The Roman senate debated the issue and could not reach an agreement. Many senators did not want to help mercenaries who had stolen a city. The issue was passed on to the Assembly of the Soldiers which had the power to vote on war and peace. It voted for war.

Two Roman legions landed at Messana where the Mamertines had expelled the Carthaginian garrison. The Romans defeated the Syracusans who were besieging the city and then besieged Syracuse, which was forced into an alliance treaty and to agree to supply the Roman army. Some small Carthaginian dependencies defected to Rome. Carthage recruited a mercenary army and mobilized for war.

Ancient Greek historian Polybius thought that the Romans were concerned about a possible Carthaginian takeover of eastern Sicily, should Carthage clash with and defeat Syracuse.

There is no mention of whether Rome predicted a war with Carthage and it is likely that they did not expect that a major war would develop. Carthage had to respond to the perceived threat posed by the alliance between Rome and Syracuse. It is likely that they had not expected a major war to develop either. They probably thought that they could win a quick land war, especially considering that Rome did not have a navy to speak of. Instead, the land war got bogged down due to the rough terrain of the island and the Romans built a navy which matched the powerful Carthaginian navy in size, though not in skills, and the war ended up becoming a big conflict which lasted 23 years.

Carthage was taken and destroyed at the end of the Third Punic War, in March or April 146 BC by the Romans. The Romans razed the city to the ground and burned what remained. A Roman colony was eventually founded on the site and grew to be the third city of the Empire in the second century AD.

They probably mean that when the Romans gained control of central and southern Italy, Rome and Carthage were destined to clash over the control of next door Sicily. The Carthaginians, who had possessions in western Sicily, mobilised for war in against Rome when she intervened militarily to support some mercenaries who had seized the city of Messana, in north-eastern Sicily, on the straight which separates the island from the mainland. These mercenaries had been attacked by Syracuse, the most powerful of the Greek city-states in eastern and southern Sicily. The Romans defeated Syracuse and forced her to become a Roman ally. The Carthaginians were worried about the security of their possessions in the west in the face of this combined power.

There had been a friendly relationship between Rome and Carthage which signed three trade treaties. This broke down during the war against Pyrrhus, a Greek King who tried to invade southern Italy by fighting against Rome and, when he failed, went to Sicily and fought against the Carthaginians. The two sides had signed a treaty in which they were meant to help each other against Pyrrhus. Initially Carthage's fleet patrolled the sea between Sicily and Rome to keep an eye on Pyrrhus' fleet, which never reached this sea. When Pyrrhus went to Sicily Rome did not give ant help. The Carthaginians, in their turn, where happy when Pyrrhus left Sicily, returned to the mainland and fought the Romans again. He lost and left Italy, saying "What a battlefield I am leaving for Carthage and Rome!" After this war Rome took over Apulia the heel of Italy, and Calabria the toe of the peninsula, just two miles from Sicily. Carthage and Rome were now the superpowers of the western Mediterranean.

Rome and Carthage were two great powers and their historic struggles are a very important part of ancient history. Carthage came very close to defeating Rome. They waged massive battles against each other for supremacy of the region. Due to its unfortunate end, we will never know how the country, second only to Rome, would have advanced over the centuries.

Carthage contested with Rome for control of the Western Mediterranean, and with the Carthaginians sold into slavery at the end of the Third Punic War, it had no real opposition. And as Macedonia had supported Carthage in the Second Punic War, Rome had a good excuse to enter into the Eastern Mediterranean to punish it.

He was talking in 1919 about the peace process and meant it was a temporary peace, leading to another war.

I think that was the end of the 2nd punic war. I think that was the end of the 2nd punic war. No, no. Itwas at the end of the 3rd Punic War, in 146 BC.

I believe that Sicily is approximately 150 miles away from the edge of the Cap Bon Peninsula.

The Carthaginians arrived in Western Europe during the Sicilian Wars (Greek-Punic Wars) from 600-265 BCE. Carthage had its eyes on Sicily, but the island was controlled by the Greeks and Sicels at the time. They waged war, but only gained 1/3 of the island. From here, they then spread to capture much of Western-Mediterranean Europe.

Three.

Rome and Carthage fought each other three times in three Punic Wars. The causes of each war were different.

The First Punic War was precipitated by the Mamertines, southern Italian mercenaries who had seized the city of Messana, on Sicily's east coast and had been attacked by the Greek city of Syracuse, (also on the east coast) the most powerful city in the island. The Mamertines asked both Carthage (which had five ports on the western coast) and Rome for help. Carthage helped first, but established a garrison in the city. The Mamertines were not happy with this and asked Rome for help again. The Roman senate was reluctant to get involved., but the popular assembly voted for war. Rome evicted the Carthaginian garrison in Messana and besieged Syracuse, which became Rome's ally. At this point Carthage mobilised for war. Ancient historian Polybius said that there were concerns in Rome that Carthage's presence in Messana might lead to a clash with Syracuse. If Carthage defeated Syracuse she would take over the whole of Sicily. The Carthaginians, in their turn, were concerned about Rome's alliance with Syracuse.

Regarding the Second Punic War, Polybius said that Hannibal wanted this war in revenge for Rome fraudulently seizing Corsica and Sardinia from Carthage by taking advantage of a military rebellion in Carthage after the first war. Cities on the northern part of the coast of Spain allied with Rome for protection because they felt threatened by Carthaginian expansion along that coast. Rome negotiated a treaty that set the river Ebro as the boundary between the two areas. Hannibal broke the treaty by seizing a city just north of this river. Rome tried to negotiate, but these failed. Rome was forced to declare war. Hannibal had already made preparations for a military expedition to Italy and set off very quickly. Hannibal's provocation and the speed of his mobilisation indicate that he did want war.

In the Third Punic War Rome wanted to destroy Carthage because the latter had recovered in economic prosperity and because she raised an army to defend herself from territorial encroachments by her Numidian neighbours. Under the term of the peace treaty Carthage was not allowed to raise an army without Rome's permission. The war faction in Rome used this to push for a declaration of war. This faction did not want an economically and possibly militarily resurgent Carthage and wanted to eliminate this foe.

Scipio Africanus.

Two hundred nine (209) miles is the air distance from Shreveport, Louisiana, to Houston, Texas. That equals 336 kilometers or 182 nautical miles.