Ancient Carthage was an ancient Semitic civilization based in North Africa. It grew from small settlement in present-day Tunisia into the Carthaginian Empire, a major power that dominated the western half of the Mediterranean Sea.
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| Subject | Ancient Carthage |
| Category | Phoenician city-state and empire |
| Reading time | 1 min · Intermediate |
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