Third Punic War | How Ancient Rome Finally Destroyed Carthage
What drives a state to destroy a civilization not for what it has done, but for what it might do again?
By the mid-second century BCE, the Roman Republic no longer wanted to simply dominate its enemies, but it now aimed to remove them permanently.
Their long-time rival, Carthage, had largely rebuilt its economy, restored its agricultural productivity, and resumed profitable trade networks across the western Mediterranean.
Although it posed no immediate direct military threat, Roman senators accused it of growing too strong.
As tensions escalated with Numidia on Carthage’s western frontier, Rome seized upon a single treaty violation as justification to destroy them forever.
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