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Topic: Carthaginian Culture Posted: 31-Aug-2012 at 14:17 |
Using current science and ancient histories at its height Carthage had around 150,-300,000 people.
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Posted: 31-Aug-2012 at 14:23 |
I have data that on place of Rome was settlement of several fishermen houses in that time(350-330BC). Rome was inhabited with refuges from territories occupied by uncontrolled migration groups during those 70-80 years...Carthage needed this territory also.
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Posted: 31-Aug-2012 at 14:35 |
Lets leave Rome out ok? As for Carthage, ehat are you advocating? Even in its infancy it had 30,000 people. It inherited the Spanish metal trade and took over the Tyrhennian trade. She also absorbed many of the Phoencian colonies, its quite easy to trace her empire.
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Posted: 31-Aug-2012 at 14:43 |
Natives were part of Alexander's world(colony?!?) those days maybe!?!He had no reason to fight with them if they support conflict in 4 century B.C.
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Posted: 31-Aug-2012 at 14:47 |
Please state your opinion I can't understand what your points are.
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Posted: 31-Aug-2012 at 19:10 |
I think Medenaywe's saying that Alexander was successful because he won local consent by adopting the Persian practise of allowing conquered subjects to rule themselves.
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Posted: 31-Aug-2012 at 19:12 |
Not a simply Persian practice. Is he advocating a subjugated Rome and Carthage?
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Posted: 04-Sep-2012 at 21:16 |
I beleive so. There are examples of conquered nations "civilising" barbarian invaders, most notably the Romans in Greece
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Posted: 04-Sep-2012 at 21:25 |
Neither Rome nor Carthage was conquered end of story unless you provide some new evidence.
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Posted: 08-Sep-2012 at 22:39 |
Conquerors can be culturally lured and converted as Rome was and Carthage was partially.
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Posted: 09-Sep-2012 at 20:06 |
Originally posted by Delenda est Roma
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I think that's what Medenaywe meant. The Brits adopted many aspects of Indian culture during the 19th century, as did the Mughals before them
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Posted: 09-Sep-2012 at 21:04 |
Yet that isn't conquering in itself.
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Posted: 19-Sep-2012 at 20:07 |
Delenda, it could be interpreted as a form of cultural conquest. Ultimately, the conquered nation could become more influential than its colonial master, like Byzantium after the fall of Rome
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Posted: 19-Sep-2012 at 20:49 |
Carthage retained a distictive blend of Punic and Greek culture. If more one than the pther it was more Phoenecian.
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