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Greetings, all.

I just was listening to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast about the First Punic War, and a thought struck me: Why didn't the Carthaginians just blockade the Romans? If the Carthaginians had better seamanship and a larger navy when the war started, why couldn't they just squeeze the Romans with their vastly superior fleets, like an Anaconda Plan, but ancient-wise. I suppose I am just wondering if that sort of economic reduction of Rome could have worked.
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