Why did Carthage deserve to be burned to the ground you may ask? Why were their men killed, their women sold to the far corners from f the republic in slavery, and their texts burned?
Why did the Romans salt the Earth where Carthage once stood so no crops could ever grow again?
Why did the Romans salt the Earth where Carthage once stood so no crops could ever grow again?
The Romans had suffered an embarrassing campaign by Hannibal about half a century prior to them deciding to burn the former empire to the ground, but why so brutally you may ask? There’s a few reasons, but one sticks out clearly in my mind.
Rome burned it to the ground and salted the earth because the Carthaginians disgusted them. They would burn their own children alive to Moloch and Baal Hammon. If this sounds familiar it’s because it was also mentioned in the Old Testament.
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These wealthy merchants would burn their children so they could have a good harvest, but what is a good harvest when you have to kill your sons and daughters for it?
You may have thought child sacrifice was something made up in the bible, but it wasn’t, it’s a real problem that not so ancient people faced against cults all over the Mediterranean.
CARTHAGO DELENDA EST!
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