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Destruction of Carthage (146 BC)
146 BC — After a three-year siege and six days of street fighting, the 700-year-old city of Carthage is destroyed. Perhaps 50,000 survivors are enslaved, and the site is cursed. Scipio Aemilianus weeps, he says, for Rome’s future.
When 146 BC Type Site of memory Chapter Roman conquest of Greece (chapter 3 of Ancient Rome)Atlas The Rise and Fall of Rome, 264 BC – AD 476 SITE OF MEMORY · THE RISE AND FALL OF ROME, 264 BC – AD 476 These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v0.2.1 · The Metropolitan Museum: The Roman Republic · Natural Earth physical coastlines and rivers · Polybius, Histories 1: Sicily and the First Punic War
Source details Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. Selected, combined, and reprojected by Maps of History; dated adjustments are recorded per layer.. CC BY 4.0 Department of Greek and Roman Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2000).. Historical evidence citation; no prose or map copied Made with Natural Earth. Modern physical geography is a coastline/river reference, not evidence of ancient sovereignty.. Public domain Polybius, Histories, book 1 (Perseus).. Historical evidence citation; no prose or map copied The bequest of Pergamon uses its source outline at 133 BC. The dataset retains a separate kingdom until 127 BC.
Displayed geometry: -133 (s133); chapter framing: -146. The map shows the moment selected for the chapter, even when the chapter spans several events.
proxy: 144–127 BC Pergamene domain reference · reconstruction: 133 BC · reconstruction: 238 BC onward; modern shoreline reference · reconstruction: Modern physical shoreline reference · vector: -144 to -111 · vector: -144 to -127 · vector: -164 to -127 · vector: -164 to -67 · vector: -170 to -127 · vector: -188 to -111 · vector: -188 to -127 · vector: -197 to -111 · vector: -203 to -127 · vector: -230 to -92 · vector: -239 to -127 · vector: -630 to 337
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