Carthage was one of the most important city-states in the ancient Mediterranean. The Phoenician city in North Africa built up a significant trading empire, which would eventually bring it into conflict with Rome. Under their infamous general Hannibal, they almost brought down the Romans, before being destroyed by Rome in 146 BC. According to legend, Carthage was founded by a queen named Dido, whom the poet Virgil connected with Aeneas, the ances…
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