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7/15/2025, 3:29:03 PM
It's time to delete again
7/10/2025, 12:19:00 PM
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Merely salting the earth was unironically a huge blunder by the romans, it demonstrates how they didn't really understand the enemy they were fighting.
As a culture of farmers, warriors and builders (grain, iron and stone), the romans viewed salting the earth, so nothing could ever grow again, as the definitive way to permanently erase a culture and its ability to rebound from destruction.
Unfortunately, the cartheginians were a culture of traders and priests; even though their city was destroyed, large portions of their wealth (trade routes/contacts) remained untouched, and their elites (oligarchs/priesthood) simply relocated shop to their semitic cousins in the levant.
Funnily enough, the cartheginians made a similiar mistake of misunderstanding their enemy during the 2nd cartheginian war; Hannibal rampaged through Italia, assuming the local city states would join him against Rome in rebellion. He was very surprised when a majority of the cities remained loyal towards Rome, which was because the Roman system of vasselage was more akin to a lawful confederacy than the exploitative vasselage system the Cartheginians employed against their own territories.
That was your fun fact for the day!
Merely salting the earth was unironically a huge blunder by the romans, it demonstrates how they didn't really understand the enemy they were fighting.
As a culture of farmers, warriors and builders (grain, iron and stone), the romans viewed salting the earth, so nothing could ever grow again, as the definitive way to permanently erase a culture and its ability to rebound from destruction.
Unfortunately, the cartheginians were a culture of traders and priests; even though their city was destroyed, large portions of their wealth (trade routes/contacts) remained untouched, and their elites (oligarchs/priesthood) simply relocated shop to their semitic cousins in the levant.
Funnily enough, the cartheginians made a similiar mistake of misunderstanding their enemy during the 2nd cartheginian war; Hannibal rampaged through Italia, assuming the local city states would join him against Rome in rebellion. He was very surprised when a majority of the cities remained loyal towards Rome, which was because the Roman system of vasselage was more akin to a lawful confederacy than the exploitative vasselage system the Cartheginians employed against their own territories.
That was your fun fact for the day!
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