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.

The lost pages of history

Kimmo Huosionmaa

Knowledge is power, is the thing, what has begun the motto in the information philosophy. But who controls the knowledge is the person, who has power for everything.  The persons, who write history are ruling the modernity and if the documents, what is written are faked, they are still powerful, especially, if the people would not be told that documents are faked.

In history, many kings, who have left their army on the battlefield are returned to the home and ruled with an iron hand their states.  The thing is that there are many things in history, what is just disappeared, and one of the things are of course Germanian cities. Or has anyone found the mentions about the descriptions about the cities of Germans in the era of the Roman empire?

 So the winners of the battle of Teutoburg lived in a tent inside some forests, what was very freezing in the winters, and if we would want to find any evidence about the cities what were outside the Roman borders, we will find the stories about Karthago, the Roman enemy number one. This Roman enemy number one is a very interesting case because Roman legions claimed to kill every person in that city. And this kind of things is very interesting because that kind of stories are meant for keeping the legionnaire's mouth shut when they returned home to Rome for giving their reports. So there was something, what Roman leaders didn't want ordinary people to know.

There is a similar thing in the Gallian campaign, what was done by Julius Caesar, and the story is about Alesia. Caesar claimed, that he killed million men army in that battle, but there is one thing, what makes this case mystery, and it is, that where the city of Alesia is actually located?  When we are looking about the history of the Roman empire, we are facing the thing, that there were no cities anywhere in Britannia or Germania, and when somebody claims that the Roman camp Parisium was located in the place, where modern Paris stays, we must say that this camp was established by Romans.

And if the Londinium camp was the origin of the city of London, we must say that settlement was established by Romans in around AD. 43, and then we must remember one story, Julius Caesar claims that he conquered Britannia, and that man died in the year 44 BC, and this would put the question, "what part of Britannia Caesar conquer?". He lived 87 years before Emperor Claudius established the town of Londinium, and that means something was wrong in his stories. When we are thinking about the reason, why Caesar invaded in Britannia, we must think that there was something remarkable, that he got permission to begin the offensive, because waters were the limit for conquerors.

So for the permission must Caesar establish some benefits for the Roman empire and Senate, what was the supervisor in the internal affairs of Rome. And if the Britannians and Germanians lived in the tents there was no reason for the attack. So how Caesar argument the permission to attack to Britannia, and how he got ships in the border of the English Channel is interesting. Did he and his men built the ships or did they call the Roman fleet from the Mediterranean to carry him and his men in England? This is an interesting thing to think.