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Re: Not embarassed to be a Canadian anymore...
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Mon, 25 Nov 2002 22:52:54 GMT
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Read of the end of Carthage:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/polybius-punic3.html
Don't skip the last paragraph where Scipio compares Carthage to Troy.
Innumerable wars have ended with complete annihilation of the enemy. The
world is littered with dead cities, dead languages, untraceable peoples. The
Hittites seem to have been magnificently unlucky.
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| (...) One could compare it to a much more present situation :-) (funny how History repeats itself over and over again) (...) Are you sure that so many wars ended that way? From my own experience, I think it's a lot more common that the "losers" of (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Rome vs. Carthage, the three Punic Wars. The third was pure force, resulting in the total anihilation of Carthage (even in physical terms) and enslavement of the surviving carthaginians. That is, in fact, a permanent solution. Question is, is (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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