1 jan 800 ano antes da era comum - Phoenicians found Carthage

Descrição:

"In the ninth century B.C.E., the Phoenicians founded, in modern Tunisia, the city of Carthage, which prospered to become the leading city in the western Mediterranean; by the sixth century B.C.E., it was the center of an empire that controlled many other Phoenician colonies. Here ironsmiths began smelting and smithing wrought iron and steel on a large scale for use and export, specializing in transforming partially worked ore into finished products. They developed new technologies to improve their products; for example, they recycled the shells of murex sea snails left over from purple dye production into a flux, a chemical compound that helped rid the iron of impurities. As in Meroë, the iron industry was controlled by the state and was a source of power that would help Carthage continue to expand its empire. In the third century B.C.E. this empire was brought into conflict with an expanding Rome (see Chapter 5)."

Adicionado na linha do tempo:

Data: