The Romans destroyed it and sold its people into slavery.
146 BCE.
Three.
Carthage was located on the Gulf of Tunis, Tunisia, Africa. It was destroyed by the Romans but the ruins are still there.
The Romans completely destroyed Carthage, leaving not one stone standing atop another, sold the populace into slavery. They spread salt symbolically on a field to emphasis that Carthage could not rise again.
The Romans won three wars against Carthage over a century, and finally sold its resilient people into slavery to neutralise them in 146 BCE. The Romans progressively absorbed the Greek states into their Empire over a period of 150 years, starting with Macedonia in 197 BCE, which had supported the Carthaginians against them in the second war with Carthage.
The Romans destroyed it and sold its people into slavery.
To expand their empire.
The Romans were resilient and would have made a comeback.
The Romans conquered Greece in the Polyponesian wars
Greece was conquered by the Romans before Jesus was born.
The Romans conquered Spain, Asia Minor, Macedonia, and Greece.
They sowed Carthage with salt as a symbolic victory gesture which said they had conquered the city and its empire and it would never grow to prominence again.
Rome annexed mainland Greece in 146 BC
Rome was the group that took over Greece.
What Horace was referring to was the fact that the Romans had conquered Greece, but the Greek culture had been adopted in the process, overcoming the Roman. It is a correct statement, if it is taken as metaphor.
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