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To: wideawake
The Carthaginians never sacked Rome - though Hannibal certainly tried very hard. The Carthaginian language (Punic) was eliminated in Africa by eliminating its speakers through genocide (and a well-deserved genocide it was),

And pray tell, why was it a well deserved genocide? The Phoenicians were respected by the GReeks and Romans as great traders, maritime adventurers and the only one of the ancients who traversed beyond hte pillars of Hercules (Gibraltar and Jabl al whatever on the other side inMorocco).

The phoenician alphabet is the first phonetic alphabet in the world and the Greek alphabet is derived from the phoneician. How was it good to have slaughtered these wise ancients?
116 posted on 02/16/2004 7:45:04 AM PST by Cronos (W2K4!)
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To: Cronos; wideawake
The Carthaginian language (Punic) was eliminated in Africa by eliminating its speakers through genocide (and a well-deserved genocide it was), ......

And pray tell, why was it a well deserved genocide? The Phoenicians were respected by the GReeks and Romans as great traders, maritime adventurers and the only one of the ancients who traversed beyond hte pillars of Hercules (Gibraltar and Jabl al whatever on the other side inMorocco). ... The phoenician alphabet is the first phonetic alphabet in the world and the Greek alphabet is derived from the phoneician. How was it good to have slaughtered these wise ancients?

The Phoenician mother land was removed from Carthage by a few centuries just as America is removed from Britain.

The Phoenicians excelled at trade. The Carthagenians excelled at war.

Is was by sheer determination that Rome was not destroyed as a civilization during the Second Punic War. When you come that close to being destroyed yourself, you get a little less squeamish about listening to Cato the Elder when he would again repeat, "Cartago delenda est."

125 posted on 02/16/2004 8:34:49 AM PST by Polybius
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To: Cronos

I believe the Romans so detested the Carthaginians because of their practice of child sacrifice.


172 posted on 08/08/2006 2:44:24 PM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must)
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