carthaginian

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...

I have been reading a bit on ancient Greece recently and I thought about what would happen if the Persians managed to conquer ancient Greece. I thought about how this would effect the expansion of the roman empire considering the attempt to conquer Greece occurred the same period as roman...

What if Carthage simply didn't exist? The Phoceanian traders and Dido (first queen of Carthage) didn't build Carthage or settle that area of North Africa (modern day Tunisia). What would the effects on the Mediterranean be without a Carthaginian trade power? Could a Rome as we know it even...

What if the Carthaginians in Iberia survives the fall of Carthage and the rise of the Roman Empire? How does this affect the history of the region?

Say the Carthaginians win the Second Punic War and just to avoid a Third Punic War they conquer Rome. Several years later they conquer Massilia for control over the Mediterranean. At this point, Carthage is the undisputed master of the Mediterranean once more. Now, with a Punic city that close...

As we know the Carthaginians were rounded up following the destruction of Carthage and its surviving inhabitants sold into slavery across the scattered Republic. But undoubtedly, there were escapees. Likely, however, the significance of the fugitive Carthaginian refugees was light, nevertheless...

How could Carthage have created a professional army, instead of mercenaries? Correct if I'm wrong but isn't the reason that they didn't was because Carthage had a lot of skilled people in the capital (Carthage). So, why didn't they just levy troops from Iberia, Berber North Africa, Sicily, or...

I'm trying to create an alternate religion in which Carthage wipes away the old gods and instead forms a Ba'al Hammon (Lord Hammon) Monotheism, or Hammonism. As much as I try to find information on Ba'al Hammon it's shrouded in so much Roman propaganda. So, I'd like to ask some people who know...

What if, after the third Punic War, Rome turned Carthage into a client state? Effectly allowing Carthage to survive. Instead of, in our timeline destroying Carthage. Would anything change in North Africa? Probably a long shot but is it possible that after the fall of the Roman Empire that...

Could the Carthaginians have founded trading colonies on the Atlantic coasts of Gaul and Britain? Perhaps Hanno the Navigator could go north instead, and follow the route of Pytheas? Would the copper and tin mining in Cornwall be an advantageous resource for Punic traders to control directly?