Does Carthage, which can compete with Rome, originate from Semitic civilization?

The word Carthage comes from Phoenician, which means "new city". It is located on the northern coast of Africa (now Tunisia), facing Rome across the sea. Phoenician immigrants who moved out of Sur City (now southern Lebanon) established an international trade center in the western Mediterranean of North Africa at the end of the 9th century BC, which means "new town". Phoenicians really originated from Semitic people, which is even older than Rome in history. Carthage is just an ancient civilization whose main business is maritime trade.

Around the 5th century BC, the ancient Carthaginians had conquered all the islands in North Africa, southern Iberian Peninsula and western Apennine Peninsula, and became an unparalleled maritime commercial empire. At the beginning of the 4th century, due to the internal friction of the Peloponnesian War, the Greek city-states tended to decline, and Carthage began to covet the Eastern Mediterranean and get their hands on Sicily.

This country has a formal Senate, a citizens' assembly and a 100-member committee meeting, but the actual power is in the hands of wealthy business families and oligarchy is practiced. Polybius, a historian in the 2nd century BC, called Carthage "the richest city-state in the world", and their merchant ships, sailors and fleets were the best in the whole Mediterranean.

In addition, Carthage's strength comes from its commercial income and powerful navy, which has huge commercial income every year, and Carthage's coins have also become a strong currency in the western Mediterranean. What is more well known to the world is his three wars for hegemony with Rome, namely the Punic War. The whole process is tortuous and bizarre, and it has also contributed many classic examples to the military history of human wars, with far-reaching influence, because 1 18 three Punic wars are not only one of the most outstanding military confrontations in the ancient world, but also a contest that determines the future direction of western civilization.

It will be decided by these three wars whether the Latin civilization based on farming, law and citizen's army will become the master of Europe and Africa, or whether the Sumerian civilization based on commerce, oligarchy and mercenaries will maintain its hegemony in the Mediterranean.