Carthage and Rome were founded around the same time but represented antithetical civilizations: Carthage was Punic-Semitic (Phoenician-founded around modern Tunisia, 90 miles across from Sicily), while Rome was Latin, and they fought three Punic Wars for Mediterranean dominance
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“Carthage was founded about the same time as Rome was... This was a colony, colonists founded under the mythical Dido at what is modern Tunisia, right? Just 90 miles opposite... the narrowest point of the Mediterranean.”
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