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Radio War Nerd EP 368 — Salammbô & The Mercenary War, Part 1 (Prequel): The First Punic War

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Carthage Was a Peacetime City

The Carthaginian Navy always had a heavy which again is like yeah that seems right so why did they do so badly that was by Carthaginian citizens. There's a there's a difference in force structure or the place of war in the whole culture here and the strengths of Carthage as a peacetime city it's not clear the room did not with 800,000 people to feed you basically had to take some slavesYeah but it was the same spirit the Navy as as we were saying was permanent they always had aHeavy which again islike the way they write on missiles nowadays yeah Yeah this isn't about how much I love The Simpsons' episode where Monty Burns gets into trouble for

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