The grand history of Ancient Rome’s empire is marked with much conflict and war. Some of the most prominent and historic of these conflicts were against a powerful Western Mediterranean power known as Carthage. Carthage was powerful enough to be seen as one of Rome’s greatest rivals. In fact, the power of Carthage was so great that she almost conquered Rome itself. In this paper, we will trace how Carthage almost became the equal of Rome, and how the conflict between these two powerhouses led to Rome becoming a great naval power.
Carthage was the first foreign power outside of Italy that Rome had come into contact with. Carthage “was originally a colony of Tyre, and had come to be the capital of a great commercial empire on the northern coast of Africa” (Morey, 1901). The city initially began as a small port on the coast, which, was only established as a stop for Phoenician traders to
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Carthage became a dependent state of Rome, and was required to pay a tribute of ten thousand talents over the course of fifty years. Carthage was also forbidden to wage wars without the consent of Rome (Morey, 1901). Moreover, Carthage was required to relinquish all but ten of their warships, and any remaining war elephants. “Grain and reparations for lost supplies also had to be provided to Rome, as well as having the responsibility of collecting runaway slaves and returning them” ("Results of the Second Punic War", n.d.). If this situation wasn’t already terrible for Carthage, she also had to struggle to defend herself against neighbouring Numidia, which was an ally of Rome. Carthage went to war with Numidia, and in doing so, violated her peace treaty with Rome. Carthage was then ordered to pay a war debt to Numidia. This came right after Carthage had finally paid her debt to Rome, thus, this new debt was simply crippling (Mark,
Carthage myth: Dido had to escape from her brother who did not want her to be a queen, but she became a queen, something strange at that time, also she showed that women are as capable as men being able to rule and sustain her city. We can see that gender inequalities had been a problem for many centuries that even though today it had been reduced, it is still present today. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions Rome's myth: Regarding to this goal we can see that in Rome's myth we can see that they solve their disagreements on a non-peaceful nor just way. When the law which says the eldest son inherits the kingdom was infringed when Amulius took Numitor’s place as a king, and in revenge Romulus and Remus killed Amulius to return the kingdom to his grandfather. Also, when Romulus killed Remus for
Armies began growing impacting the control over the Italian peninsula; launching three wars against Carthage. For example, the Punic wars were taken place to dominate the western Mediterranean. But, by the early second century BCE, Rome had control over the Mediterranean coastline. Transforming in the wave of production from agricultural being manufactured to mine goods. Roman’s build roads to creating towns but, was placed to control the flow of commerce.
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As mentioned previously, Augustus declared war on Cleopatra and in doing so declared war on Antony who, since beginning a relationship with Cleopatra, was going to support her in the battle. In doing this, Augustus knew he would gain more support due to people feeling able to swap to support him rather than Antony with the reason of not liking Cleopatra rather than seeming disloyal. Despite Cleopatra having a large army, Antony lost a large proportion of his support from the army to Augustus and therefore Augustus defeated Antony and Cleopatra. This battle could be seen to lead the way to Augustus ruling the new Roman empire as a powerful military state because he had been able to gain so much support in the lead up and during this battle and therefore the reason why it changed so drastically was because of the feud between Antony and Augustus allowing it to when Augustus declared war on Cleopatra. However, one question raised by this is if Antony would have fought Augustus if he didn’t have the support of Cleopatra and her army and if he wouldn’t have, would Antony still have run the Roman Empire as a military state or maybe followed Caesar and become a dictator?
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