ancient carthage

The Treaty of Lutatius essentially ended the First Punic War and marked the acscension of Rome as a growing power. Also, it saddled a heavy indemnity, plus reparations, on the Carthaginians, which would drive the events of the Mercenary War and of the Barcid clan's expansion in Spain. A certain...

Carthage, when it was originally founded, remained a monarchy with significant powers given to the Malik, or ruler, up until around 480 BC, with the disastrous defeat sustained by Carthage at Himera against the Greeks, power was given more to elected suffetes, the Adirim(basically a senate of...

The POD is that Alexander lives longer, but only for long enough to conquer Arabia and to conquer Carthage, as well as impose some status of vassalage or tributary status on the Greek cities of Magna Graecia, and to keep the Italian tribes quiet, but that he suffers a fatal wound that kills him...

After the defeat of Carthage in the First Punic War and the subsequent Mercenary War, the Barcid family decided to expand their holdings in Iberia, and according to legend, Hannibal's oath happened around this time. It took decades, but many of the Iberian tribes were eventually subdued and...

In 480 BC, supposedly on the same day as the Battle of Salamis, the Greek forces of Gelon, King of Syracuse, and Theron, tyrant of Agrigentum, defeat the Carthaginian force under the Carthaginian Malik(Carthage was not yet a republic.) Hamilcar I. It had far reaching consequences, inaugurating...

When it comes to alliances, you don't get much more legendary than Rome and Carthage. When Pyrrhus invaded Sicily, it was only natural that the actions he took would cause the two republics to develop the kind of friendship that can only be forged in fire. Together, the two would square off...

Carthage has had a lot of influence in the Classical history of the Mediterranean, primarily through it's famous conflict with Rome, and before that it's conflicts with the Greeks on Sicily, although it's language, culture, and legacy are mostly extinct nowadays. But what if Carthage was either...

How likely would it have been for Rome and Carthage to end up as mortal enemies, rather than firm allies?