The biggest military threat to Rome came from ancient Carthage, the second superpower after the Roman Empire in the Mediterranean region.Hannibal of Carthage(Carthaginian general) came as close as the center of Italy via Gaul (France) with his army that was reinforced with elephants and he almost...
The most ugly historical correct CC. From mud , stone and rotten wood. Expand Perhaps a differentiated texture like the one we have with Carthaginians? If not a new general structure of an improvised camp. Quote Lion.Kanzen Balancing Advisors 25k Author Posted March 29, 2021 On...
left behind megalithic temples, some of the world's oldest freestanding structures, dating back to around 3600 BC. The Phoenicians arrived here around 800 BC and established Malta as a crucial trading post, and later Carthaginian and Roman rule incorporated the islands into larger trading networks....
On the other hand, nineteenth-century amateur scholars misinterpreted Plato's narrative as historical tradition, most famously in Ignatius L. Donnelly's Atlantis: The Antediluvian World. Plato's vague indications of the time of the events - more than 9,000 years before his time - and the alleg...
this centralist tendency is often at odds with another long-standing theme of the French nation: the insistence on the supremacy of the individual. On this matter historianJules Micheletremarked, “Englandis an empire,Germanyis a nation, a race, France is a person.” StatesmanCharles de Gaulle...
Among France’s other major cities areLyon, located along an ancient Rhône valley trade route linking theNorth Seaand the Mediterranean;Marseille, a multiethnic port on the Mediterranean founded as an entrepôt for Greek and Carthaginian traders in the 6th centurybce;Nantes, an industrial centre...
Jews - Semitic ethnic group, anciently the Hebrews, identified with Judaism as religion and Palestine as homeland. Latin - Language of Rome, also Italic culture of Rome, the Western Roman Empire and the Roman Catholic Church. Orthodoxy - Relating to the original Christian Church and its traditio...
Few cities have had a more varied history than Tangier. Existing already as a Phoenician trading post in the middle of the 1stmillenniumbce, it later became Carthaginian; the remains of a Carthaginian settlement can still be seen near Cape Spartel. In 81bcethe Roman generalQuintus Sertoriuscap...
The town was founded about 529bceby Greek emigrants who called it Dicaearchia (City of Justice). Captured byRomein the Samnite wars, it was vainly besieged by the Carthaginian generalHannibalin 214bceand had the status of a Romancolonyfrom 194bce. The Romans called the city Puteoli. Its ...
Roman Republic, the ancient state centered on the city of Rome that began in 509 BCE, when the Romans replaced their monarchy with elected magistrates, and lasted until 27 BCE, when the Roman Empire was established. It expanded through conquest and colon