WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -Founded by the Phoenicians in the ninth century BC, Carthage reached its height in the fourth century BC as one of the largest metropolises in the world and the centre of the Carthaginian Empire, a major power in the ancient world that dominated the western Mediterranean.

Detailed explanation-2: -According to tradition, Carthage was founded by the Phoenicians of Tyre in 814 bce; its Phoenician name means “new town.”

Detailed explanation-3: -The ancient world’s greatest traders and legendary sailors, the Phoenicians, now called Carthaginians, owned a monopoly on trade in the western Mediterranean, passing through the Pillars of Heracles, trading for tin in Britain, and-according to Herodotus-circling Africa.