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Everything has a beginning the earth does, the galaxy does, the universe has a beginning, and so does Carthage. Carthage was made by the Phoenician queen Elissa (a.k.a. Dido) in 813 BCE. It was made in what is now present day Tunisia, North Africa. Carthage was made by another Phoenician city-state known as Utica. Carthage was made for a trading stop and a port for Phoenicians to resupply their ships. That is how it all started out.
Now that the new town was there they need to find out what to name it. At first the Phoenicians called it Karthadasht which means “new city”. The Greeks turned this name into Karchedon. Then the Romans called the city Carthago. The people of the city finally ended up calling their home Carthage. Finally the new town had a name, “Carthage”.
The culture of Carthage is very hard to find out because of so few remains we have of the city but we can figure out a rough image of what it was. They idolized a lot of gods and goddesses, known as polytheism. We think they had human sacrifices to the main gods such as Baal and Tanit. After a while some of the Greek gods were developed to their culture (Juno, Demeter, Persephone)
There were many wars that the Carthaginians fought in; the First Punic War was one of them. In the beginning Rome’s navy was weaker than Carthage’s, so they posed no threat. The Carthaginians forced Rome to a treaty so that the romans couldn’t trade in the west Mediterranean Sea. Then Rome changed the style of their navy, and made gang ways which turned the sea battle into a land battle. After that change Carthage was not prepared for a land battle and Rome won a series of battles and defeated Carthage in 241 BCE. Carthage was forced to give up the island of Sicily and had to pay a lot o...

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