Carthage - A Very Modern Political Entity in This Period

Carthage was a port city on the african coast of the mediterranean sea. The fact that, like carthage s in africa and rome is rome makes them sound very distant. They are 400 miles away. That is the difference between san francisco and los angeles. And if you've seen how people from san francisco talk about alo, stand how ginicidal desire could erupt between the to cities. It's not hard to get to even then. Why the war happens, right? Ah. So while rome was, from the beginning, a land military power that expanded through force, carthage was first a mercantile power with trade