Flashcard sets with a 'carthage' term meaning 'an ancient city in north africa, established by traders from phoenicia. it was a commercial and political rival of rome for much of the third and second centuries b.c. the general hannibal attempted to capture rome by moving his army from spain through the alps, but he was prevented and finally defeated in his own country. at the end of the punic wars, the romans destroyed this city, as the senator cato had long urged. the character dido, lover of aeneas in the aeneid was a queen of this city.'

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