Carthaginian epicracy

It’s a long held assumption that traders, like the Carthaginians are often assumed to have been, didn’t know how to handle weapons. They lived in an age before the Pax Americana that secured global trade. In the Early Middle Ages, Jewish traders were in conflict with more religious Jews, because they wore their swords on…

The treaties with Rome show how Carthage was able to strongarm the Romans with their superior navy by restricting the Romans’ access to trade. It also stipulates that settlements, raided by the Carthaginians in the amphibious operations of their navy to gain slaves, would then fall under Roman control. Carthage’s raids of Italy played a…