What difference would it have made if Carthage won the Punic war?
2007-02-17 04:51:38 · 5 answers · asked by ddallkki 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Carthaginians spoke Punic, a dialect of Phoenician. Carthage under the Phoenicians was notorious to its neighbors for child sacrifice. Carthaginian religion was based on Phoenician religion. Phoenician religion was inspired by the powers and processes of nature. Carthage, like every other Phoenician city, was governed by two judges elected annually from among the most wealthy and influential families. This practice descended from the plutocratic oligarchies. These aristocratic families were represented in a supreme council that had a wide range of powers.
Rome was a republic with an elected Senate that represented the people of different districts. The Romans spoke Latin and much of their systems of law and government came from the Greeks as did much of the architecture.
The main differences that would be in place today would be in law, government, language, religion and philosophy.
2007-02-18 06:28:37 · answer #1 · answered by southwind 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1st War: Sicily and Carthage 2nd War: Spain and Italy 3rd War: Carthage and surrounds
2016-05-23 22:53:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
One obvious one is that the Roman Empire would never have spread to be the size that it got to be. The world today might not even be familiar wtih the term "Roman Empire".
2007-02-17 05:50:54 · answer #3 · answered by whosaysdiscoisdead 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No Latin; English would be a very different language; No Pope;
2007-02-17 05:53:33 · answer #4 · answered by Freethinking Liberal 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who knows? Infinite possibilites
2007-02-17 05:20:20 · answer #5 · answered by jaspers mom 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋