Coopers History Podcast Cartage Kingdom

Coopers History Podcast Cartage Kingdom

The Carthage Kingdom Carthage originated as a city-state in which is now Tunisia around the 8th or 9th century BCE. It was established by Phoenician settlers who migrated to the area from ancient Labanon. Oever time, Carthage developed into a vast seafaring empire controlling large portions of coastal North Africa, the southern Iberian Peninsula, and numerous Mediterranean islands. Including Corsica. Sardinia, and Sicily. At its peak, Carthage had a population of nearly half a million inhabitants. By the mid-3rd century BCE, the Carthaginian Empire entered into conflict with another ancient great power, the Roman Empire, leading to the Punic Wars. These wars cocluded in 145 BCE