Carthage's Destruction (In Our Time)
146 BCE · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Destruction of Carthage. The North African city of Carthage was rich and powerful, but in the second century BC it suffered a terrible fate. The Greek historian Appian wrote about it: “Then came new scenes of horror. As the fire spread and carried everything down, the soldiers did not wait to destroy the buildings little b
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Around 146 BCE
- Qin Shi Huang unifies China (221 BCE)
- Han dynasty (202 BCE)
- Julius Caesar (100 BCE)
- Caesar crosses the Rubicon (49 BCE)
- Augustus (63 BCE)
- Great Wall of China (Qin) (221 BCE)
- Second Punic War (218 BCE)
- Han open the Silk Road (130 BCE)
- Terracotta Army buried (210 BCE)
- Great Wall first connected under Qin (215 BCE)