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Officer Holy Squad Carthage Punic War 218-201 BC 

Unpainted Tin Figure

1:32 Scale

Manufacturer: Handmade

Material: Tin

Historical reference

Carthage was an ancient Phoenician city-state located in present-day Tunisia. Founded around 814 BC as a colony of Tyre, within centuries it grew to become the center of the Carthaginian Empire, a major commercial and maritime power that dominated the western Mediterranean until the mid-third century BC.

After gaining independence in the mid-seventh century BC, Carthage gradually expanded its political hegemony across northwest Africa, Iberia, and the major islands of the western Mediterranean. Its sphere of influence encompassed an informal empire of colonies, client states, and allies. Despite its cosmopolitan character, the core aspects of Carthaginian culture, language, religion, and identity remained Phoenician, also known as Punic.

At its height in the third century BC, Carthage was the dominant economic, political, and military power in the Mediterranean. It was among the largest and richest cities in the ancient world and served as the region's leading commercial and industrial hub. Carthage's vast trade network extended from the Levant to West Africa, and from sub-Saharan Africa to northern Europe, providing an array of agricultural goods, precious metals, and manufactured products. This mercantile empire was secured by a large and powerful navy, which for centuries was unmatched in size and strength.

Carthage's rise brought it into conflict with many neighbors and rivals, from the indigenous Berbers of North Africa to the nascent Roman Republic. Following a series of conflicts with the Sicilian Greeks (c. 580–265 BC), growing competition with Rome culminated in the Punic Wars (264–146 BC), which saw some of the largest and most sophisticated battles in antiquity. In 146 BC, after the third and final Punic War, the Romans destroyed Carthage and established a new city in its place. All remaining Carthaginian dependencies, as well as other Phoenician city-states, came under Roman rule by the first century AD.

Carthage is mostly remembered for its long and bitter conflict with Rome, which almost threatened the rise of the Roman Republic and changed the course of Western civilization. Due to the destruction of virtually all Carthaginian texts after the Third Punic War, much of what is known about its civilization comes from Roman and Greek authors, many of whom wrote well after its destruction, and who to varying degrees were influenced by attitudes shaped by the Punic Wars.

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