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The Roman empire pretty much always contained Carthage territory. It's like wondering whether the British empire would have been meaningfully different if it's
by mkoubaa 2y ago
The Roman empire pretty much always contained Carthage territory. It's like wondering whether the British empire would have been meaningfully different if it's HQ was in Wales rather than England. Probably not.
Consider also that the most important thinker in the empire after the classical period was Augustin, a North African.
- AmericanChopper 2y agoNot sure what you’re trying to say here. By the time Rome became an empire, Carthage had already been wiped out of existence for over 100 years. Who knows what Europe would have looked like under a Carthaginian empire, but I’m rather confident it would be quite different. Especially given how a lot of Europes history post-Roman Empire revolved around attempts to reestablish and re-bust-up the Roman Empire.
- kibwen 2y ago> The Roman empire pretty much always contained Carthage territory. I suspect this is being downvoted because the Punic Wars took place hundreds of years before Rome became "The Roman Empire", both in the sense of having a literal emperor and also in the sense of being associated with the huge swathes of the Mediterranean that we tend to think of when we think of the empire's boundaries. It's just a different period of history. Not only did Rome not control any bits of Africa at this point, it didn't even control Sicily, which is what the First Punic War was about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Punic_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Punic_War