When talking about Carthage the legend of Queen Dido was always mentioned who had a quarrel with her royal brother and sailed to the shore of Carthage along with her followers. She only asked for a small land the size of which could be covered with the cows hide. However she cut the height into thin layers which was enough to cover a significantly larger area, so much for the tale.
In reality the city was built here to be able to control the trade roots. At that time the 300, 400 thousand strong Metropolises manage to control all the main shipping lanes of the Mediterranean Sea.
The Tunisians set scouts and later settlers to Sassari, Sardegna, Balearic Islands and Gibraltar. They traded in ivory, copper, tin, fur, tropical trees, gold and spices. They deliver their good swiftly, made clever trades and soon made a reasonable profit.
Their richness generated envy in the Greeks and Romans. Rome started three wars against Carthage and its dweller’s, the Finisian’s as they called themselves. The wars lords of Carthage, Hamilcar and his son Hannibal successfully protected the city with mercenary armies. Hannibal even traveled across the outs with his army which was 50,000 strong.
However, the time of the big rival were come in the 2nd Century BC. After a three year blockade and several smaller lost battles Carthage was weak enough to be conquered. The Rome in generals they feel burned and destroyed the city and afterwards had his men plow and fill the area with salt in order to make it unusable to every culture.
However, during the time of Cesar and Augustus the city was reborn from its ashes until the Muslim Arabian tribes lead by Hassan Veno Mane destroyed it for ever. Many of the stones from the city were use to build pumice while the rest can be seen on the expeditions site.
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