Carthage's Wars of Expansion DOCUMENTARY
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This history documentary follows up on the Rise of Carthage by taking a closer look at its Wars of Expansion. These conflicts in the ancient world are broken down into several theaters of war including North Africa, the Mediterranean, and Spain.
We begin the history documentary with a broad trajectory of the history of Carthage's Wars. Next we cover the military of Carthage including it army and navy. We then turn to the North African wars by which Carthage laid the foundations of its empire. Next we look at the wider affairs of the Mediterranean and how Carthage got involved in the affairs of the ancient Greeks, Etruscans, and Romans. Finally we look at the Spanish theater where Carthage finally expanded following the harsh losses of the First Punic War.
Sources and Suggested Reading:
"Carthage: A History" by Serge Lancel
"The Carthaginians" by Dexter Hoyos
"Carthage's Other Wars" by Dexter Hoyos
"Carthage Must be Destroyed" by Richard Miles
#History
#Documentary
#Carthage
We continue out series on the history of Carthage! Check out part 1 on the Rise of Carthage if you haven't seen that yet: czcams.com/video/XCbag4UIvBc/video.html. Also be sure to pop on by our Patreon page for previews of future episodes: patreon.com/InvictaHistory
you can make a video from payment roman? ty and still the nice work...
I liked your voice better, to be honest
Epic voice actor.
When is the Caesar videos comming
@@dsmithum I personally always liked how you could feel, that he truly cared about what he was talking about and how he conveyed his love for and interest in history
I have always been awed at the scales of these bronze/iron age conflicts. They almost seem entirely fictional in scope and intensity. Like something you might read about in warhammer and the like with massive fleets of warships and eternal reoccurring conflicts over strategically important locations like Sicily and Spain.
George White I so agree! When learning about these ancient wars and the poetry of them ai have to wonder how much as been embellished by historians due to their epicness!
It’s hard to even comprehend, 100 people together looks like a large amount while wars of this time were often fought with over 50,000 men on the battlefield. Hannibal defeated an army of 80,000 Romans with an army of 50,000, that’s 130,000 men!
Hugh Morris if you’ve ever gone to an nfl game they hold around 80,000 people. Now imagine all them with weapons charging another stadium. It’s insane to think of how feeding that in ancient times for year long campaigns with no refrigeration
Dustin Arnold ayyy all the resources for gear and the training involved is just insane. It would have been spectacular to watch, if of course you desensitise the death!
If you think this is big, China used to regularly have battles numbering in the millions of combatants.
There is no better feeling than finding a decent history channel with a lot of content while being quarantined. Keep up the great work! :)
Even better when it's finally something non-Roman.
Amunt Valencia!!!
Idk illegally breaking quarantine and getting away with it feels great it's gotta be close.
You forgot about snacks and sweatpants all day other than those 2 yeah true
I love how Carthaginian expansion is depicted as purple dye spilling onto the map.
guess that was why Rome had to kill it
The ancient city of Tyre excelled in producing a very fine purple dye extracted from marine snails called Murex. The Carthaginians took over the control of dye production and became extremely wealthy
"One can therefore imagine cycles of conquest being guided by the economic interests of the upper class."
"War... War never changes."
@Főfasírozó brah, it's a quote from a video game. Chill out lol.
And yet, its true.....
@Johnny Cage
Sounds more like Dunning Krueger, id est, you are a self declared genius while in reality you are incapable of engaging in proper debate due to your own flaws.
Last time I was this early, Rome was just a bunch of weirdos on some hills.
Just two babies hanging out with a wolf
History Dose Man, you’re ancient lol
I wonder what ever came of that by the way.Weird strange folks on that hill they were.
Santi Somchay Legend has it they went on a centuries long stabbing spree
last time i was this early the phoenicians and their jewish cousins were still fighting it out.
What an awesome documentary carthage is most certainly one of the most overlooked empires in history. Good to learn something new keep up the great work!
This is partially because the romans put very much effort into destroying historical accounts and remains of Carthage, they wanted them deleted.
carthage? overlooked? sure
@@XIXCentury They are. Throughout my years of learning history in both elementary and high school, we studied Rome extensively from the early years of the monarchy to the fall of both (Western and Eastern) Empires. Carthage in comparison was: they were smashed in three wars and conquered at the end, with the city utterly destroyed. That's it. If you don't look specifically for Carthage or Phoenicia, chances are you'll hear fuck all about it because it's overshadowed by Greece, Rome and Persia.
@@araknas3981 Just because you didn't know about Carthage and just because it's not taught as much as the Romans doesn't mean that they are one of the most overlooked empires in history. What about the Khmer Empire or Songhai Empire? Or even Umayad, Alhmohad, Portugal, Neo-Assyrians... Okay Portugal is pretty well known, but I could go on.
@@elcruzador3795 Never said I didn't know about Carthage, where exactly did you read that?
You can bring up empires that are from far away and I ask you how much does the average Western person know about Thailand or Vietnam? How much does the average Western person know about Rome? A tad more.
How much does a Japanese person know about present day Poland or Ancient Rome? And how much do they know about the Shogunate? Same goes for the Middle East. There's your answer.
Let's not pretend Empires from outside our own cultural circle are overlooked. They are not. They are simply in the interest circle of others and are considered niche here. They are not taught because they had close to no effect on the lives of people in Europe. If they had, they would be more commonly known. Carthage is in the Mediterranean and fought THE most famous ancient empire in the Western World. They should be much better known simply because they collided with Rome. That's why there's so much more interest in Persia, because they fought against the Hellenic cultures.
Love how that large alliance had to form just to oust a small Spartan colony
Real men have that effect.
Back then it took a massive amount of manpower to siege a city, let alone completely destroy one
The Spartans were apparently in the process of founding a colony. While they probably did take precautions given the volatile situation in Lybia at the time,It’s unlikely they had built up significant defences, or that they physically could have built those,defences in time to fend off attack
@@count487 Spartans didn't build city walls so that wouldn't have helped.
@Julio Argentino Roca Sparta's military capabilities were always exaggerated. Their success was down to their professionalism and reputation more than anything else. Once they faced equally competent enemies in pitched battle, like the Thebans, the result was a coin flip.
I am Tunisian (and a Carthaginian descendant). Carthaginian Civilization is our Ultimate pride when it comes to our history. It is however rare (outside of Tunisia) to see things about it, other than the three Punic wars. Your work on this video is, the least to say, VERY good. I cannot wait for future videos.
Keep it up
calm down kaang
Carthaginian descendant? Are you Levantine or Tunisian? Phoenicians were Levantines, not Berbers.
It's Levantine history. You just got lucky we brought civilization to a small part of Tunisia. Nice try.
@@CDRNY25 not all North Africans are Berbers, those who speak arabic are either Arabs or descendents of Phoenicians .The Phoenicians were all over North Africa for many centuries and they left their descendents. Their language is similar to arabic , and that's why it was easy for arabic to take hold in North Africa , because one of its version already existed there before islam came in. All true Berbers still speak their berber language. Islam arabized nobody, it didn't arabize even some isolated very small tribes surrounded from everywhere by arabic-speaking people such as the Beni Boussaid, the Beni Mzab ,... The true name of Carthage in phoenician was Kharita Hadisht, meaning the new city, the Latin writers simplified it to Carthage . Hanibal Barca ,his name comes from hani and Ba3l, meaning the servant of Ba3l a deity worshipped long ago in the Middle East , historians interpreted the name Barca as meaning the thunderbolt, and in arabic barq means lightning ... The true origin of the Phoenicians is a part of Yemen and Oman, not your Levant. Some of them settled in Canaan, others were always on the move looking for new places. Even the greek historians Strabo and Herodotus trace their origin to Eastern Arabia. The city of Sousse in Tunisia was founded by the Phoenicians who gave it the name of Hadhramaut ( its old name ), and everybody knows that Hadhramaut was an ancient kingdom in Yemen. Why would they call one of their cities after a Yemenite kingdom if they had nothing to do with Yemen ? You are probably one those minorities in the Levant ( armenians , turkmens,...) , pretending to be related to the Phoenicians ,but in fact have nothing to do with them at all.
@@benamar.x8990 You're stupid.
*I can't get enough of Carthaginian history (which can sometimes be hard to find)... please keep up the good work and keep these videos coming!*
God I am loving this production value.
‘Boots’ on the ground ??? .... ‘sandals on the ground’!!
And Salt in the ground
They did kind of function more like boots with the ankle wrap and protection.
Bet people wished they had socks.
Ash Ash imagine being either being the slave or payed worker that had to clean those feet and trim the toe nails
Caligulas on the ground
I have simple wants. More Carthage content warms my heart
I’m always impressed by the ever improving quality and design of your videos Invicta.
The (production) quality of these videos. Unmatched by any other history channel.
Man! Carthage was so cool. Hannibal was so close to breaking rome, I wonder how the world would've changed if Carthage won the punic wars
Hannibal wasnt european nor carthageans
Rome probably would have bounced back if their allies didn't desert them. If they had to reconquer Italy... That would probably mean the restart of their conflicts with everyone.
@@lilyoyo77 Lol. Hannibal was from an elite class Carthiginian family which was highly influential conservative faction in Carthaginian senate.
@@user-dg9xy9sm5e yeah im.just saying he wasnt european
@@lilyoyo77 yes, he wasn’t European
Great work ! As a proud Tunisian i really love how you handled the subject even tho the ressources on Carthage are pretty scarce.
Yeah, very proud of the Phoenicians who built this city in your country.
@@CDRNY25 Uhh, actually they didn’t call themselves as phoenicians rather they introduced themselves as carthiginians whose capital was Carthage at modern Tunisia. So, your comment is actually inaccurate at this point.
@@user-dg9xy9sm5e Uh, you're stupid? Phoenicians never called themselves anything but Canaani or from the city they resided in or came from. Even in Carthage, they still refered to Tyre/Canaan as their homeland. The Romans called them Carthiginians.
@@CDRNY25 lol, Romans called them punics. Do you study first
@@user-dg9xy9sm5e No, fool. They used both. Punic literally means the same as Phoenician but Romans at the time had more interaction with the Phoenicians who spent their days in the WEST closer to them while the Greeks had more interaction with the Phoencians of the east then west as they spread out. When a roman say "Punic", it is a general reference to the the Canaanites as whole but when they want to narrow down to a specific people and which city, they had to refer to the Phoenicians of Carthago aka Carthaginians. 🤦♀️
When Carthage loses a single battle against Rome "Last night the crying of the children kept me awake and I had a terrible vision, I saw the fall of our city.. bleached bones under a harsh sun.. Carthage... GONE, why would Bal send such a vision? He's not cruel he has watched over us!"
Its time to sacrifice more children.
Because Baal is literally the devil. All religious nations that had human Sacrifice were in fact worshiping the devil and his minions.
@@Barthaneous34 So that includes basically every religion? Nice, time to get rid of religion.
I hate Gauls....
@Mwaniki Mwaniki Abraham almost, but it was a test so it doesnt count...
15:27-15:44
Task failed successfully.
Like Pyrrhus of Epirus
@@voicelessglottalfricative6567 pyrrhus _was_ epirus tho
@@voicelessglottalfricative6567 Well. In Pyrrhus's case it would be like "Task succeeded with failure" That's where the term pyrrhic victory comes from
@@doraorak Yeah so it would be reversed technically
I really appreciate the fact Invicta is doing a deeper series on Carthage because it's a State that I haven't really heard much about in the main stream. I'm very aware of the Punic Wars but that's about it. Keep up the GREAT content! I love it.
God i love Carthage and everything to do with them.
Why though ?
@@elang1702 because it is truly fascinating to think about is, what was one of, if not, the largest civilizations in the world at the time just having most of it's history just destroyed. Plus the fact i love most things to do with pre-empire Rome.
@@systemerror3261 Ah, Fascinating
Myself as well. I love the pre-imperial period to understand what made them become great.
The scarcity of information about Carthage in popular circulation in itself makes it infinitely fascinating.
I love the music. Can it be accessed somewhere or was it produced for this documentary?
now I would love a Carthage: Total War
You do know there is a few diffrent punic war mods where you can play this time period
@@SasoriZert I don't care about mods, I would like a new game about this, about, the rise of carthage and many other powers at that time, a time older than rise of the republic DLC
@@gastonhitw720 given the track record of CA Im sure they wont do many other time periods that close to an existing title cause that be just a short time before the rome series you'd either have to make it just a map of north africa, sicily, and maybe spain but if ya do that there be only one super power carthage. But who knows CA has done things that people havent expect before so can never tell if they do one or not
@Patrick B that dlc is pure crap
@Patrick B yep, many ancient civilizations, from the phoenicians to cannae battle, from nuragic culture to african tribes, if they really do this game someday I would like it to be bigger in scale than roma 2 tw, with many and many cities to conquer in just one region instead of just "Carthage" "Syracuse" etc... like thrones of britannia was
The adition of a profesional voice over really add something. ^^
Your documentaries are really getting better and better.
Brilliant production. I love ancient Phoenicians and Carthage! The fact that they were an ancient civilization and the colonial structure really picks my curiosity. Phoenicians came all the way from one end of Mediterranean to the other to found colonies and one of them became an empire itself in the end. From minor colonial traders to the rulers of Mediterranean through wars with lots of blood, sweat, and tears. Thank you for this awesome video guys!
F...The Phoenicians were Egyptians,and ALL ancient African Empires were native black and brown people of their lands.
Me after conquering rome carthage and greece as epirus using autosresolve cheats
Annex_Selukid Empire.
Prins van Oranje jij weer
Boo.
Butter Brickle Total War Rome 2
Butter Brickle the battle visuals he uses in his old vids were made using this game
Keep making carthage stuff please! love the vids
Absolutely love this series. Keep up the great work!!
AMAZING! This promise to be the best series of historical content on CZcams
I'm loving this format KEEP IT UP!
This is fantastic and I'm also really glad that this episode didn't have the 10 second percussion loop going in the background the entire time.
Great work! I have heard of most of this information before, but only in bits and pieces. You synthesize it all in a helpful way that I have never seen before.
Love the Carthage series, Invicta. Thanks and keep up the good work.
One of the best productions of this channel. Congratulations!
Can we talk about how beeeeeeeautifully the pictures are drawn for these videos! Fell in love with this channel from the first sight!
Man this quality of the video is incredible 😍
Really hyped to see the video on the war on Hispania in the Second Punic war! the quality of the video is EXCELLENT! Loved it.
I hope someday they'll find an intact cartagenian library somewhere.
Oh I wish, a source of the people themselves rather than the romans' "edited" version
Hope is all we have at this point.
I would rather have their archives, libraries are filled with ready narratives and biased information. Archives are older and bigger than libraries as well, so we could get source information on everything from population sizes, tax collection, army movement and so much more.
did Claudius not write a history of Carthage including their language? shame that never survived, it also shows that Claudius was a genius not an evil moron as often portrayed.
Most of it is inside the Vatican library , here in Tunisia there's a lot of things still undug and unearthed, thanks to our one corrupt government after the other there's basically no budget for archeological research, I went all over the country and saw with my own eyes a lot of forgotten structures in the middle of nowhere i saw the temple of Tanit being empty of it's treasures and history, dirty, forgotten and almost no one ever heard of it outside of the really small community who actually cares, few years ago a female minister was fired from her position because she asked for a budget to bring scientists for the purpose of archeological digs to find the history hidden underneath the ground on hopes of strengthening tourism.
Y'all did a great job. Carthage is one empire I know very little about.
I like the background music in your Carthage documentaries, sounds fitting :)
Modern day Carthage/Tunis is absolutely gorgeous. I can only image how beautiful it was during the Punic State
yeah. sad to see the only remains of the ancient city is the roman carthage not the original one.
Modern Carthage is the roman version😂
AWESOME video!!
Look forward to more!!
Amazing content. Thank you.
This is the most beautiful artwork I've seen in a documentary like this. Great job!
Love this series already! Keep up the good work!
I subscribed to this channel in 2013 for Rome 2 content and I have never been disappointed. Amazing job!
We are here. Thank you.
We've covered mostly 20th century war in our videos so far, but documentaries like this one make us feel like branching out into the past! Good work.
The graphics on this video are absolutely astounding!
The production value has really increased! Nice one man.
Amazing video! thank you!
oh my god the editing is incredible for this video
The artwork in this channel is beyond beautiful. And mix with the content. This channel is explosive. My god u guys deserve medals. Respect from the rest of us sir.
Excelente vídeo!!! Parabéns!!!!
Just learned the Greek and Roman origins of the word Africa. Love this stuff on Carthage. Keep up the good work! Especially the Spanish and Sicilian theatres and their religion.
Fantastic production quality. Well done
love it man, improving production values, keep at it
The art and music keeps on improving, damn! And it was already great before... great job guys!
I love your channel. Nice war history information and video
I love the graphics. Those boats are superb !
Dear god, the production quality on these things has just skyrocketed :D
I love it, I think my Favorited part of Carthaginian culture would have to be the architecture, it was this beautiful blend of Greek, Italic, Phoenician, everything really.
But yeah, great work on all of this, it puts even major networks to shame :)
The quality is outstanding
Loving the Carthage content recently
I really enjoy your videos ! Thank you
Loving this series!
Best episode yet. Really enjoying this Carthage Series. Would be cool to see an in depth series like this on King Mithridates of Pontus
Wow I LOVE these animations!
This is the series I’ve been waiting for. Thank you for covering this well known but poorly studied civilization. @invicta
Here we gooo! You guys are great, new narrator is sublime.
I love your content!
Dont forget the intro you always have
This guy is the best narrator by far, keep it up!
Really great video, can’t wait for more on Carthage, especially the wars against Syracuse.
Carthagenians were majority Native Africans,and the ruling class.Watch the video ANCIENT INHABITANTS OF CARTHAGE. Phoenicians were EGyptians.Africans lived in Carthage long before anyone else ventured there.
@@matiusbond6052 Phoenician weren't Egyptians
@@matiusbond6052 carthage was creates by the Phoenicians how could africans be living there
Estoy flipando con lo genial que es este vídeo ! Salve Invicta !!
I love the quality and the content poured out on these videos! Would it be possible to feature South, Southeast, and/or East Asian kingdoms? That would be really cool!
This video was absolutely beautifully well done. One thing I take issue with is the framing that Carthage "used mercenaries". This is a very bad framing. As a city state, Carthage used "allies" from subject neighbors. In the exact same way the Romans did. The idea of mercenaries is a trope forever attached to Carthage by way of infinite repeat. As with Elephants in Hannibal's campaign despite non of them surviving the crossing of the alps.
Excellent work Gentlemen
Beautiful documentary guys. I am reeling for more 😀
Been following since about 100k. I've always loved your content and so pleased you're doing a series of videos on Carthage, my favourite bit of history. Everything about this one feels really smooth and professional so well done and keep it up
Fantastic video. The voice is absolutely fantastic. Compliments
Very well done!.
I can't wait for the next video on carthage! Invicta is excellent!
Great video thanks
Wow. Amazing video 👏👏
I can't tell how long I was waiting for this knowledge
I always enjoy videos about lesser known subjects like this. Honestly I never really put much time into learning about Carthage prior to it’s wars with Rome.
Same! Thats why I am so excited to be doing this series. We will have about a dozen episodes on Carthaginian military and social history before we even start on the First Punic War.
@@InvictaHistory u really now dont do gaming videos loved those war rome 2 days
@@InvictaHistory jesus fucking christ oakley, a dozen ?????
Rome beating the magnificent Carthage Empire is what turned them into the Great Empire that last as long as it lasted.
And the pillaging of Greece and its massive wealth also
Don't forget conquering Anatolia, Hispania and Gaul, that allowed the Romans to move East into the Levant, Egypt and create the "mare nostrum".
@@LuizAlexPhoenix hispania was part of the carthaginian empire
Not true
Excellent!
EXCELLENT!
Loved it!!!!!
Love your maps. quite cool.
Great video!
Amazing!!
Hello Invicta,
Hearing a different narrator, sorry I may not know you guys very well, but just wanted to check if you were all OK.
Anyways, thank you for your new content, it's a pleasure to enjoy such well narrated and presented contenct.
Great job
Very Nice !
Wow awesome 👏 thank you 🙏
Top history stuff, boya!
By your documentaries you make me love Carthage 😍🧡
This was an amazing documentary about Carthage, I've enjoyed it a lot.
But there's a detail that I think needs to be addressed for future works relating to the Balearic Islands. The Carthaginians only were established in the colony of Ibossim, modern Ibiza. The indigenous populations of Mallorca and Menorca, were the Balearic slingers mercenaries were from, remained independent until roman conquest in 123 b.C
Apart from that excellent job!
I have to give you props on the art style over these episodes.