Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Windchild, post: 1669348, member: 44189&quot;]Anoob, you missed one major part.</p><p><br /></p><p>Those children who were killed in a &#039;Molk&#039; Sacrifice in the Tophet were normally those of nobleman.</p><p><br /></p><p>From this, it is assumed that it was a honor to give your children to the gods.</p><p><br /></p><p>It also states that they could sacrifice work animals or street children (that they payed for).</p><p><br /></p><p>Most of the children that ended up sacrificed were those who were stillborn or died in infancy </p><p>(due to the lack of graves in the main cemeteries of those under 3, despite infant mortality estimated at 35-40%)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It was all over the ancient world, but the sacrifice would normally be just leaving them out on the street (Rome) or throwing them off a mountain (Sparta), along with many other ways.</p><p><br /></p><p>This was mostly due to the lack of food, but most people had multiple children due to the above infant mortality rates.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It was a corporation, but one reliant on religion. </p><p><br /></p><p>In my Opinion, This was much like the Roman Catholic Church during the Papal States period...</p><p><br /></p><p>They controlled the colonies (states) by Religion, without the religion it would have fallen apart in a short time. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Anoob misspelled the name of the area, and has a few mistakes on what the book is based on.</p><p><br /></p><p>The book is based on surviving histories (taken in context that most historians had an anti-Carthage view), along with Archaeological evidence. </p><p><br /></p><p>For the Area:</p><p><br /></p><p>Magna Graecia (Great Greece) was the name of Southern Italy</p><p><br /></p><p>For more information:</p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Graecia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Graecia" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Graecia</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Little Shocking, isn&#039;t it...</p><p><br /></p><p>As I mentioned above, this was not uncommon in the ancient world, but the child would have had a much faster and less painful death than starvation or waiting for the wolves.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, most sacrifices were those of stillborn children or those who were already dead, so it isn&#039;t as bad as it seems (only got very bad with the mass killings where this wouldn&#039;t be allowed to happen during times of great disasters [Romans in North Africa during the Second Punic War is an example])</p><p><br /></p><p>And Finally:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>In my opinion, the Carthaginians weren&#039;t as Barbaric as the Romans (and I&#039;m saying this as a 99.99% chance descendant of the Romans).</p><p><br /></p><p>As said above, the Romans would leave their children to starve or to the wolves, where the children of Carthage were killed quickly.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some of the Greeks called the Carthaginians barbarians. This was because they were fighting each other for Sicily, and both sides committed many Genocides, mass murders and other atrocities.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In fact, the Great Aristotle himself, teacher of Alexander the Great, thought Carthage had an amazing system of Government, nearly reaching that of the Athenians.</p><p>He didn&#039;t think that Carthage was barbaric compared to the great city of Syracuse.</p><p><br /></p><p>Romans originally didn&#039;t think that the Carthaginians were barbaric, but changed [my opinion is this part] that so they could have good reason to attack and kill the Carthaginians, taking over their empire.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in