Rome had never wiped large bustling cities from the face of the earth before 146 BCE. This year both Carthage in North Africa and Corinth in Greece - two great cities in the ancient world - were completely destroyed by the romans. These were measures on a scale previously unheard of in the Mediterranean basin and arguably what started Rome on it’s path to empire, and perhaps in the long run it’s eventual decline.
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