Carthage Vs. Rome: The Punic Wars

According to archaeological evidence, Carthage was founded by Phoenician traders from Tyre. The settlement was created with the hope to control the prosperous trade in tin, gold, silver, and copper. By the third century, an autonomous Carthage controlled much of North Africa, Sardinia, and Corsica as well as parts of Sicily and the Iberian Peninsula. The harbor was massive, with hundreds of docks, great columns, and was adorned with Greek sculpture. With its prevailing fleet, it dominated trade throughout the western Mediterranean and even into the Atlantic. The Phoenician colonies in the western Mediterranean turned to Carthage for security and support after Tyre was conquered in the early sixth century. As Carthage arose as a major military power, its political system became a more inclusive republican form of government.

Carthage vs Rome

Rome and Carthage signed several treaties, however Rome’s involvement with Carthage’s Greek adversaries along with Rome’s traditional fear of powerful neighbors, caused tension. In 264 BC, the Punic Wars, a collection of three brutal wars for control of the western Mediterranean began. When Carthage captured Sicily, Rome responded by

Galatia was named for the immigrant Gauls from Thrace who settled here and became its ruling caste in the 3rd century BC.

Upon the death of Deiotarus, the Kingdom of Galatia was given to Amyntas, an auxiliary commander in the Roman army of Brutus and Cassius who gained the favor of Mark Antony. After his death in 25 BC, Galatia was incorporated by Augustus into the Roman Empire, becoming a Roman province. Near his capital Ancyra, Pylamenes, the king's heir, rebuilt a temple of the Phrygian god Men to venerate Augustus, as a sign of fidelity. It was on the walls of this temple in Galatia that the major source for the Res Gestae of Augustus were preserved for modernity. Few of the provinces proved more enthusiastically loyal to