Enjoying our content? You'll love the Timeline History Channel app! Download now: Check out our new website for more incredible history documentaries: HD and ad-free. Carthage was Rome's equal, rival and almost her conqueror. In 146 BC Roman general Scipio destroyed the city of Carthage so painstakingly and utterly that not a single building was left standing. What did the Romans so fear about the Carthaginians that in the end they would be prompted to the most
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