028 The Rise of Carthage
The History of Ancient Greece
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The History of the Carthaginian Alliance
A Carthaginian general named Malchus was said by later Greek sources to have conquered all of Sicily. This meant that the Phoenician cities in western Sicily, those being Machia, Panormus and Solus, had fallen under Carthaginian control. An angry Carthage thus invoked their alliance with the Alemians,. A combined Carthaginian Alemian military force engaged the Greeks, and prohibited them from establishing a colony on Sardinia. But before we get there, there's a few key Carthaginians that we need to introduce.
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