The Rise of Carthage
Introduction
As Cartage already stablished herself as a naval power in Mediterranean Sea, the romans were in the rise to transfer themselves from a regional power in Italian peninsula to replace Carthage in the Mediterranean and eventually became an ancient world power.
Carthaginian struggle to power
Carthaginians were the true sons of Phoenicians who were residing in Phoenicia and their mighty city Tyre in today’s Lebanon. The Phoenicians from the beginning were the great traders and their true trading means were through the seas. They had connected east to west through their powerful naval fleet. Their trading domain were including Syria and Egypt in the east to the northern cost of Africa, to the Spain and morocco and beyond that to the England in the north and as far as Senegal in the south. In this many naval routes, they stablished as many as harbors to facilitate their trading business. one these important harbors was the city state of Carthage which were enjoying of very strategic location in the middle of Mediterranean Sea. As the mother state of Phoenicia were declining due to foreign invasions, notably the alexander’s…show more content… At the beginning both cartage and Rome were competing over the Greek colonial islands in the south of Italy and north of Carthage. Their early encounters were mostly proxy wars which turned in to direct conflict mainly over the possession of island of Sicily. From the very early stages of the first Punic wars the romans realized the might and superiority of the Carthage naval power; therefore, they were determined to make their own strong fleet to be as par as the Carthage at sea. They eventually succeeded to make their own navy and replace the Carthage as the single super power in the Mediterranean
