Re:Deepwater Sub Recovers Roman Battering Ram Used in Cartha...
by kibwen on Saturday August 31, 2024 @11:15AM
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> The Roman empire pretty much always contained Carthage territory.
I suspect this is being downvoted because the Punic Wars took place hundreds of years before Rome became "The Roman Empire", both in the sense of having a literal emperor and also in the sense of being associated with the huge swathes of the Mediterranean that we tend to think of when we think of the empire's boundaries. It's just a different period of history. Not only did Rome not control any bits of Africa at this point, it didn't even control Sicily, which is what the First Punic War was about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Punic_War
I suspect this is being downvoted because the Punic Wars took place hundreds of years before Rome became "The Roman Empire", both in the sense of having a literal emperor and also in the sense of being associated with the huge swathes of the Mediterranean that we tend to think of when we think of the empire's boundaries. It's just a different period of history. Not only did Rome not control any bits of Africa at this point, it didn't even control Sicily, which is what the First Punic War was about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Punic_War