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Carthago -- History and Mythology (1310 words) |
 | 814 BC: traditional date for the foundation of the city, though many believe that the actual date was some two generations later because of the lack of earlier remains. |
| The Carthaginian engagement of the Sicilian Greeks in 480 BC at the same time as the Persians under Xerxes were invading Greece seems to have been part of a coordinated plan that met with failure. |
| Carthage's subsequent revival of fortune in the first half of the 2nd C. BC led Rome to decide to neutralize the potential threat posed by Carthage once and for all by destroying the city and annexing its territory. |
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