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 by little, but all in a heap.
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Around 146 BCE
- Caesar's conquest of Gaul (58 BCE)
- Second Punic War (218 BCE)
- Spartacus slave revolt (73 BCE)
- Fall of the Roman Republic (133 BCE)
- Qin Shi Huang unifies China (221 BCE)
- Han dynasty (202 BCE)
- Caesar's dictatorship (49 BCE)
- Julius Caesar (100 BCE)
- Caesar crosses the Rubicon (49 BCE)
- Augustus (63 BCE)