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Oh, Hello everyone. Welcome to the History of the World Podcast magazine and once again this week we're going to be looking

at events that changed the world.

So those of you are not familiar with the History of the World

podcast, what we do, every couple of weeks we'll release an episode called a

magazine episode where we will look back in the archives of the

podcast and pick and choose some of the more favoured

moments of the podcast history. At the moment what we're doing and we're looking at events

that changed the world so we're going back far back in history and plucking out some juicy little bits of information to republish and bring to you in a in a

magazine format. Well events have changed the world where are we going this week well I thought I would start by

talking to you about the establishment of the city of Carthage that wonderful city that gave us all those

stories with the Carthaginian Empire.

Where did it all start from? The city of Carthage was established in the ninth century,

B.C. and it was along the coast of northwest Africa in what is now Tunisia.

It emerged as one of several Phoenician settlements in the Western Mediterranean, created

primarily to facilitate trade.

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