Hey, do you guys remember hearing about the Punic Wars in school?

Hey, do you guys remember hearing about the Punic Wars in school?

Is a series of fights between the Carthaginians and North Africa

and the Romans and well Rome that took place a hundred two hundred years before the time of

Jesus and it's like three big chunks of warfare that happened.

The Carthaginians are this refined intellectual literary culture.

They're the descendants of the Phoenicians from the Levants, like phonics, these are smart people.

And then you got the Romans, and obviously they're smart people, and maybe they were just too smart to be in that close of proximity to each other.

But they fight a whole bunch, it turns real... to be in that close of proximity to each other.

They fight a whole bunch.

It turns really ugly.

This is where we get the legendary General Hannibal,

who wages war even with elephants that he took over the Alps and then went down the

Italian peninsula and caused all kinds of problems for the Romans there but when

it's all said and done the Romans sort of win this war of economic attrition they

they just have more cooking in their empire, and the Carthaginians are defeated

and then humiliated according to the article that I read as a kid in the encyclopedias that

my parents bought every other week at the local grocery store,

which obviously means that they were reliable and true.

And then they came down and the humiliation involving knocking over all their buildings and stuff,

like a big bully older brother does

another kid's Legos like no they're knocking that stupid get that crap out here is done

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