The destruction of Carthage

Carthage was the “number one “ enemy for Rome. The thing was that the city was a quite small thing, but it resisted the Roman influence, and that’s why Romans wanted to destroy that thing. The destruction of that city was a very long term of the city fight, and the reason, why the Romans began the fight against the city, was that Carthage violated the peace contract with Romans, what prohibited the fight without permission of Romans.

And the fight against that city was very brutal, and the Roman troops, what was involved in the operation at  c.149 B.C were claimed to act like the beasts, and they were claimed to kill civilians and even children and women. This thing isolated those men, and this thing was repeating during all time of the Punic war. There were claims that the troops, what fought against Carthage ate their fellows. And that kind of thing made them very unpopular. Also, some leaders of the Roman side mentioned to flee and leave their army behind them. The thing was that there were many things, which made the operation against Carthage very interesting.

The structure of the Harbour of Carthage was that there were war harbor behind the trade harbor, what made easy to hide the warships from the unauthorized views, and this thing made possible to close the entrance of the war harbor by using other ships, and that meant that Carthage could not bring it’s warships to Sea. And when we are thinking about that case, we must not go to details, to understand why the Carthage was conquered by Romans, and the nucleus or crystal of that thing is that Romans gave the orders, what Carthaginians could not follow.

Romans wanted to humiliate and punish that city and gave all its agriculture and land areas to other villains, and that meant that Carthaginians understood, that they would be killed anyway, and that made them fight. The thing in the tactical operation of the conquering the Carthage was, that city would be easy to win if the Romans would just close the harbor by using the ropes. Here we must think about another case from the past. The Peloponnesian war was the conflict what would be easy to win by using the same methodology.

The Spartans should only close the harbor of Athens, and that would isolate this city from the sea. There remains only one question: why Spartans didn't make that thing? The reason was that the war continued and continued. The Romans acted similar way in the Punic war. The isolation of the Carthage would make sure that the power of the city would leave, and then the Carthaginians would get the peace.

But there were some things, why Romans wanted to continue the war, what they would win quite easily. And what was the thing? The denigration of those troops have given the tip, that Romans wanted to hide something, what happened in that war. The thing that the War continued and continued caused that the leaders of Romans got very much power, and that war was the change to get Gloria from the battlefield.