When Dido learned of this, Dido uttered a curse that would forever pit Carthage against Rome, an enmity that would culminate in the Punic Wars.

Seeking a swifter end to the war than the long sieges in Sicily would have provided, Rome decided to invade the Carthaginian colonies of Africa and usurp Carthage's supremacy in the Mediterranean Sea, consequently forcing Carthage to accept its terms.

Hasdrubal pursued a policy of consolidation of Carthage's Iberian interests, even signing a treaty with Rome whereby Carthage would not expand north of the Ebro River, so long as Rome did not expand south of it.

Carthage could keep its African territory but would lose its overseas empire, a fait accompli.

An African prefecture, centered in Carthage, was established in April 534, but it would teeter on the brink of collapse during the next 15 years, amidst warfare with the Moors and military mutinies.

But starting this war would not be an easy task considering those recent struggles with Carthage — many Romans were too tired of conflict to think of embarking on another campaign.

The Roman victories over Carthage in these wars gave Rome a preeminent status it would retain until the 5th century AD.

Like many Sicilians, they would ultimately rise again in support of Carthage during the Second Punic War.

* April – Royal Colony of North Carolina Commissioners John Watson, Joshua Grainger, Michael Higgins and James Wimble plan the town of New Carthage ( which would eventually become Wilmington, North Carolina on the east side of the Cape Fear River ).

But when Gelimer reached Ammatas's position and discovered that his brother had been killed, by the vanguard of John the Armenian, he became disconsolate and failed to give an order for one more assault — which would probably have destroyed the reeling Roman army and cut off the Huns and Romans who had earlier advanced toward Carthage after beating Ammatas and Gibamund.

Once he had accomplished this, Olybrius would then continue to Carthage and offer a peace treaty to Gaiseric.

He was opposed by the senator Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum, who favoured a different course, one that would not destroy Carthage, and who usually convinced the Senate.

A century later, the site of Carthage was rebuilt as a Roman city by Julius Caesar, and would later become one of the main cities of Roman Africa by the time of the Empire.

In reality, it would seem that Orosius ’ s main task was to assist Jerome and others against Pelagius, who, after the synod of Carthage in 411, had been living in Palestine, and finding some acceptance there.

Josephus also related that Hiram ’ s reign began 155 years and 8 months before this event, and that construction of Solomon's Temple began in the twelfth year of Hiram's Reign, which would be 143 years before the building of Carthage.

* Carthage would pay Rome 2, 200 Euobean sSilver talents ( 56 tons ) over a 20 year period as reparations.

* Carthage would evacuate all islands between Italy and Sicily – probably the Aegates Islands in addition to the Aeolian Islands.

* Carthage would pay 2, 200 silver talents in 10 year installments, and 1, 000 talents immediately, a total of 3, 200 talents as war reparations.

* Carthage will ransom all Punic prisoners while all Roman prisoners would be freed without payment of ransom

Had Hamilcar suffered a decisive defeat, casualties and prisoners would have diminished their numbers and Carthage would have had an excuse not to pay anything.

City leaders told the State that Carthage was on too steep of a hill for locomotives to climb and that access to the University would be limited if built there.

According to the terms of the treaty signed between Scipio and Carthage, Carthage could keep its African territory, but would lose its overseas empire, by that time a fait-accompli.

* Carthage or Carchedon: A Phoenician city, it marks a western limit of Athenian influence ( line 174 ) and it is somewhere that the ships don't want to go ( 1303 ); an eastern limit is marked by Caria ( 173 ).

All through his reign, Masinissa extended his territory, and he was cooperating with Rome when, towards the end of his life, he provoked Carthage to go to war against him.

He planned to help Tarentum, then go to Sicily and attack Carthage.

At one point, Ford encouraged Joseph and his brother, Hyrum Smith, to go to Carthage, the county seat, to face criminal charges in the destruction of the newspaper, the Nauvoo Expositor.

In 148 BC, Andriskos conquered Thessaly and made an alliance with Carthage, thus bringing the Roman wrath on him.

Even in his old age he displayed the same restless energy, and is said to have been contemplating a fresh attack on Carthage at the time of his death.

His disciple, Cyprian ( Bishop of Carthage 248-58 ) appeals to the same fundamental principle of election to a vacant see in the aftermath of the Decian Persecution when denying the legitimacy of his rigorist rival in Carthage and that of the anti-pope Novatian in Rome ; however, the emphasis is now on legitimating his episcopal ministry as a whole and specifically his exclusive right to administer discipline to the lapsed rather than on the content of what is taught.

On June 27, 1844, Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum were murdered by a mob in Carthage, Illinois, while being held on charges of treason.

According to the historian Polybius, considerable debate took place in Rome on the question of whether to accept the Mamertines ' appeal for help, and thus likely enter into a war with Carthage.

In past wars on the island of Sicily, Carthage had won out by relying on certain fortified strong-points throughout the island, and their plan was to conduct the land war in the same fashion.

At the beginning of the First Punic War, Rome had virtually no experience in naval warfare, whereas Carthage had a great deal of experience on the seas thanks to its centuries of sea-based trade.

Consequently, Carthage was able to reinforce and re-supply its besieged strongholds, especially Lilybaeum, on the western end of Sicily.

* Carthage returns their prisoners of war without ransom, while paying heavy ransom on their own.

The indemnity demanded by the Romans caused strain on the city's finances and forced Carthage to look to other areas of influence for the money to pay Rome.

The resulting Battle of Cape Ecnomus is a major victory for Rome, who lands in Africa and advances on Carthage.

The Battle of Adys is the first Roman success on African soil and Carthage sues for peace.

The Christian author Tertullian, commenting on ludi meridiani in Roman Carthage during the peak era of the games, describes a more humiliating method of removal.

The Romans had already had independent experience with the peoples on the peninsula during the long conflict with Carthage.

They defeated the Vandals, who were caught completely off-guard, at Ad Decimum on 14 September 533 and Tricamarum in December ; Belisarius took Carthage.

After gradual decline of its strength, Phoenician city states on the Lebanese coast were conquered outright by the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, which organized it as a satrapy, though many of Phoenician colonies continued their independent existence-most notably Carthage.

'" Further location shooting took place in Sousse ( Jerusalem outer walls and gateway ), Carthage ( Roman amphitheatre ) and Matmata, Tunisia ( Sermon on the Mount and Crucifixion ).

An alternate theory holds that by the 4th century BC, the western Greeks, especially the Massaliotes, were on amicable terms with Carthage.

During the last half of the 4th century BC, the time of Pytheas ' voyage, Massaliotes were presumably free to operate as they pleased ; there is, at least, no evidence of conflict with Carthage in any of the sources that touch on the voyage.

In 533, he accompanied Belisarius on his victorious expedition against the Vandal kingdom in North Africa, took part in the capture of Carthage, and remained in Africa with Belisarius ' successor Solomon the Eunuch when Belisarius returned to Constantinople.