This is the History of the World Podcast with me Chris Hasler and you're listening to volume 3 the

classical world episode 28 the Punic Wars Episode 28

The Punic Wars Part 2 The The year is 221BCE.

Hastrabell the Fair was the main military commander of Carthaginian forces in Iberia.

He had taken the reins from his father-in-law, Hamilka Barka, the great Carthaginian commander, who was in constant defiance of the

imperialist Romans despite Carthaginian defeats.

Hastrabal was responsible for negotiating a deal with the Romans where the Carthaginians

would be allowed the freedom to subjugate the lands of the Iberian Peninsula south of the Ebro River.

Anything to the north was too close to the Romans and therefore not fair game.

The Carthaginians were desperate to gather some wealth and this would be at the expense of the Celt Iberians of the Iberian

Peninsula. The Carthaginians needed to take these lands in order to gather

enough wealth to pay repatriation costs to the Romans,

following their defeat in Sicily at the conclusion of the first Punic War back in 241, B.C.

The Keltyberians did not particularly enjoy having Carthaginians invade their lands and take their wealth.

Hastrabal the Fair paid the ultimate price for Carthaginian behavior.

Hastrabal was in the city of Karate Hadashit,

a city which he founded.

Now we have to be very careful here.

Curate Hadashit was the Carthaginian name for the city of Carthage,

the capital city of the Carthaginian Empire in the modern country of Tunisia.

Hastrabel built another city in Iberia and called it Karate Hadashit too. This would lead to the

Romans calling the city New Carthage to distinguish it and today we call it Carthagena.

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