Comments by "ricardo kowalski" (@ricardokowalski1579) on "The Barbary States - The Final Yarrs" video.

  1. Why is it that Carthage flourished and was rich, and the same space later became poor and unproductive? Rome fought and vanquished a peer in north Africa... but why did it stay down for centuries?
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  2.  @Fenris86  Agree. But it begs the question, why did they turn to piracy and not trade? Hypothesis: Did the larger, longer range tall ships bypass them? Larger, safer, tall ships could sail directly from Egypt to London, and made the intermediate stops useless? /// I have the idea that Carthage traded, but also produced and exported a lot of olive oil wheat. What happened to that farmland?
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