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Location: Kurile Lake Kamchatskaya Oblast Russia

The economic success of Carthage and its …

Years: 621BCE - 478BCE

The economic success of Carthage and its dependence on shipping to conduct most of its trade lead to the creation of a powerful Carthaginian navy to discourage both pirates and rival nations.

Their naval strength and experience is an inheritance from the Phoenicians, but they have increased it because, unlike the Phoenicians, the Punics, as the Romans call the Carthaginians, do not want to rely on a foreign nation's aid.

This, coupled with its success and growing hegemony, brings Carthage into increasing conflict with the Greeks, the other major power contending for control of the central Mediterranean.

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North Africa (-621 - -478)
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North Africa (-621 - -478)