:^)

damn

>anil
Do they really

>>213445688 (OP)
Why were Romans so chuddy

For roman writers Rome itself was a place of debauchery

>>213445688 (OP)
That's an indian elephant btw, not the north african elephant the carthaginians used, who sadly went extinct in the early middle ages...

>>213445688 (OP)
true
romans used to spread a lot of anti-canaanite propaganda

>>213445688 (OP)
What is the Jews' angle with this one? Normalizing child sacrifice? I sense Moloch's hand...

>>213445800

>>213445819
Just very very arrogant (not necessarily unearned)

>>213445688 (OP)
Don't listen to them that article is woke Carthaginian propaganda

>>213445934
Every other mediterranean people had the same stories about them, it's not a cohincidence. Plus semites did practice mass child sacrifice, the punics probably just kept this tradition

>>213445688 (OP)
I don't know if I would call it an empire, it showed no intention of integrating its colonies and dominions as constituent parts of its political elite like the Romans did, not even on their home turf: during the Mercenary War only two Lybian cities stayed faithful to Carthage, which goes to show that they really saw them only as tributaries and treated them as such

>>213446131
you're just being racist

>>213445688 (OP)
Punic whore

>>213446149
I would pass as a lebanese

>>213445688 (OP)
the Romans weren't talking to us they were talking to their Latin allies about who they should side with.

>>213445934
Stfu Phoenician

>>213446134
people today call empire any country that's powerful, especially old ones
carthage was a republic first and foremost

>>213446263
Republics can be empires

>>213446175
but you are still anti-Canaanite bigot
>>213446228
victim of roman propaganda

>>"First, the Syrians (Isaac 2004: 335–50): They were born for slavery according to the familiar formula (Cicero, de provinciis consularibus 2.5.10; Livy 35.49.8; Livy 36.17.4–5). The presumed qualities of the Syrians and other Asiatic peoples which earn them the description of having been born for slavery are: servility, effeminacy, perversity. Homosexuality, self-castration, perverted cults are all associated with this presumed lack of masculinity. They were no fighters, it was thought

Orientals = trannies = elagabus

>>213446399
vgh levantines were way ahead of the curve... trans rights in 200 AD

>>213446263
Yeah, we can call it an empire only in the measure we can call Athens an empire, i.e. kind of wrongly

>>213445688 (OP)
never trust a roman

More civilized than nordcucks at the time that is for sure

Every single ancient people that met with Phoenicians said they do child sacrifice, from Romans to Judeans to Greeks

Not even that, the literal cemeteries for the child sacrifices have been found in Carthage, cemeteries which have funeral inscriptions thanking the babies for giving their lives for the rain to end the drought or whatever

It's such an undisputed fact that it's legitimately ridiculous to suggest that they didn't sacrifice children

Kikes are still kvetching about CARTHAGO DELENDA EST 2k years later KEK!

>>213447619
>Jewish demanded from the Roman king
lol