ORIGINS
Carthage’s native name, Qart Hadasht, meant this.
What is “New Town” or “New City”?
Carthage’s two annually elected chief magistrates were called these.
What are the suffetes?
The Carthaginians spoke this language, a form of Phoenician.
What is Punic?
This was the chief male deity of Carthage.
Who is Baal Hammon?
The First Punic War was largely fought over control of this island.
What is Sicily?
Tradition says Carthage was founded by Phoenicians from this city.
What is Tyre?
This body monitored generals and could punish failure harshly.
What is the Council of Elders?
One major pillar of Carthaginian power, besides trade, was this productive sector.
What is agriculture?
From about the 5th century BCE, this goddess became especially prominent in Carthage.
Who is Tanit?
Hannibal’s attack on this city helped trigger the Second Punic War.
What is Saguntum?
Carthage stood on the coast of this modern North African country.
What is Tunisia?
This body monitored generals and could punish failure harshly.
What is the Hundred and Four?
After the First Punic War, Carthage rebuilt power in Iberia partly because of rich deposits of this metal.
What is silver?
Carthage’s famous harbour complex, with an outer merchant harbour and inner circular military harbour, was called this.
What is the Cothon?
This Roman general defeated Hannibal at Zama in 202 BCE.
Who is Scipio?
Because Punic archives were mostly lost, this discipline has to do much of the heavy lifting in Carthaginian history.
What is archaeology?
Aristotle praised Carthage’s constitution but criticised office being tied too closely to this.
What is wealth?
Carthage’s trade network moved metals like tin, silver, gold, and this fourth metal.
What is iron?
These cavalrymen were crucial to Hannibal’s early successes in Italy.
Who are the Numidians?
This postwar conflict exposed the danger of Carthage relying on troops who might go unpaid.
What is the Mercenary War?
This rare surviving Punic intellectual work, later translated by Romans, shows Carthage was more than just a war state.
What is Mago’s agricultural treatise?
Carthage was politically sophisticated, but it was not this.
What is egalitarian?
Aristotle said colonies acted as this for the Carthaginian state, helping relieve pressure and maintain stability.
What is a safety valve?
The most controversial sacred area at Carthage, containing cremated infant burials and ritual markers, is known by this term.
What is the tophet?
In this war, ending in 146 BCE, Rome destroyed Carthage completely.
What is the Third Punic War?