>The entire Roman empire got so buttmad about a Phoenician

>>2894583
>Phoenician
you mean African

>>2894583
>salt their entire country
I never got this. Didn't they conquer the place right after? Was that forever a shit province after that?

>>2895220
Salting doesn't do anything really

>>2895226
I thought it ruined the soil and shiet

>>2895273
you'd need waaaaayyy more than ancient people could afford
it stems from a middle eastern ritual iirc

>>2894583
>The entire Roman empire got so buttmad about a Phoenician elephant rider and his band of fuckboys that they had to salt an entire country
No you fuck, they got buttmad about a city who just wouldn't fucking stay down time after time no matter how hard it was stomped into the ground, it wasn't about fucking Hannibal.
And they just symbolically salted the city, not the region.

>>2895220
>Was that forever a shit province after that?
Top kek, the province was actually reasonably wealthy and peaceful for roman standards. It was a true breadbasket and the empire relied upon it and Egypt to feed the Urbs.
Caesar actually rebuilt Carthage, and it became once again the second biggest city in north Africa after Alexandria, only this time completely romanized.

>>2894609
So you be saying...

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>>2894609
> he doesn't know

>>2895273
The amount of salt needed would be beyond the means of a modern country desu

Soil salt mass, on Western Australian land that can still support some plant life, has been estimated at 15 000 kg per hectare.

>>2895226
>>2895220

Rain will wash the salt away, so salting is most effective in places where it hardly ever rains.

Carthage became a great grain province in the Empire so it did recover and provided a lot of places with bread.

>>2895512
Where do you think that dissolved salt goes to?

>>2895747
Hell, where it belongs

>Empire
How has nobody pointed this out yet

>>2895769
Without salt potatoes would be fucking boring.

>>2895777
>"""""""/his/torians"""""""""""

>>2895769
whats your problem with salt?

>>2894583
>The entire Roman empire
>Roman Empire
op do you need a history lesson

>>2894609
anyone who actually thinks this is fucking retarded Carthage was a Phoenician city the Phoenicians were jews Dido was a fucking Phoenician jew which makes Hannibal a fucking Phoenician jew literally everyone knows this and it's been written throughout history so why are liberals so retarded

>>2895844
Good thing he came to the least educated board on 4chan then.

>>2895844
>A state needs to have an emperor to be an empire
Um, no sweetie.

>>2896675
that's not what they're saying retard, there was never an official "emperor" anyway even during the imperial era, they're pointing out it was a republic at the time.

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>>2896675
the punic wars is what made rome. they didn't have shit for land until much later on.

>>2896707
Reread my post you moron. The Roman Republic had several non Latin territories at the time of the Punic Wars. For all intents and purposes it was technically an empire by the definition of the word. If that anon meant IMPERIAL Rome then they ought to have specified this.

>>2896675
"Empire" is almost a completely arbitrary term. The term doesn't apply to the Republic for the simple fact that it'd cause confusion with the Principate and the Dominate.

>>2897110
no it wasnt. it was a republic. The US has foreign territory and it's not an empire either.