King Mago I has abandoned Carthage's purely …
Years: 537BCE - 526BCE
King Mago I has abandoned Carthage's purely citizen army and begun depending heavily on mercenaries, the city’s small population base forcing him to do so.
His son Hasdrubal I succeeds hime in 530 BCE.
Carthage, mostly under the leadership of the Magonid dynasty, establishes a commercial empire that will dominate Western Mediterranean trade during the latter half of the sixth century BCE.
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- Younger Subboreal Period
- Iron Age Europe
- Phoenician colonization
- Iron Age, Near and Middle East
- Classical antiquity
