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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cachecoins, post: 8083330, member: 111237&quot;]Carthaginians we&#039;re a colony of the Phoenicians if I am not mistaken who settled and dominated that territory. They ruled as a privileged class dominating the natives which did result in civil unrest and conflict with that population. </p><p><br /></p><p>They then colonized other lands and while some became clients, others were taken by force. They had a system over time of monarchy and a form of republicanism, and they fought wars to hold onto their territories. Through trade and wars utilizing military and naval superiority they did fight for dominance (punic wars being just one of many wars fought) and control of territory&nbsp; to build an empire which they defended and also sought to ever expand.</p><p><br /></p><p>They sound very much like Republican Rome to me. I wonder what they would have done to Rome had they won...sat down for some tea and a chat maybe. I think to simply call them traders is simplistic, they were an empire that sought expansion and domination.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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