Carthage in 3D!

[seienchin]

Back in the pre-raze times, in the height of its empire, Carthage was larger in terms of population than the Republican Roma (founding-146BCE). But in the Imperial times, Rome's population increased to over one million. When the two coexisted Carthage had more people, but generally speaking, Rome had more inhabitants at its height.

If you would have a source it would be nice.

[moonburn]

one estimate during the time of hannibal barca carthage was suposed to have around 600k inhabitants but 80% of those "where foreigners" as in not carthaginians/phonicians
if we consider this estimate accurate then carthage had around 120k poeni and libi poeni to recruit from (?)

i can´t remember the source but it was something out of discovery chanell about the birreme where they where making genetic research to prove that the carthaginians where in fact poeni while accompaning the story of a lebanese fisherman building a bireme in the ancient poeni style wich proved that 20% of the population of tunisia can have their blood dated back to the carthaginians

(as i said it´s out of a documentary so bad criticism please direct it at whoever made the documentary)

so yes carthage was probably even bigger then alexandria or seleukeia or babylon and most likely rome at the start of the 2nd century bc if it really had the 600k population

(actually another good documentary is engenering an empire made by the history chanel where they talk about the port and the 6 store high buildings of the carthaginians and the triple wall)

[tls5669]

The Carthaginians were the first to create apartments. I'm really surprised that the Romans didn't copy that aspect of Carthaginian culture, the way that Rome had gotten so overcrowded later on in history.

[moonburn]

rome had the 1st shoping mall copyed from those designs

the ground level was for food and one of the upper one´s was for cloths so they did copyed it

as for who made them for the 1st time i don´t think there´s evidence for who originally made it but there´s story´s os siege´s in sicily against poeni setlements where the greeks had to use siege towers and fight in the roofs of such "appartments" and those stories date back to the 5th or 6th century bc

we think the old where all savages but there´s more to the human ingenuity then we give it credit for (actually a baby from 100k years ago if transported to our time would fair just as well as any other child the problem is that they had no instituted education (or we assume they didn´t))

[Andros Antonius]

rome had the 1st shoping mall copyed from those designs

the ground level was for food and one of the upper one´s was for cloths so they did copyed it

as for who made them for the 1st time i don´t think there´s evidence for who originally made it but there´s story´s os siege´s in sicily against poeni setlements where the greeks had to use siege towers and fight in the roofs of such "appartments" and those stories date back to the 5th or 6th century bc

we think the old where all savages but there´s more to the human ingenuity then we give it credit for (actually a baby from 100k years ago if transported to our time would fair just as well as any other child the problem is that they had no instituted education (or we assume they didn´t))

Wow, that's cool about the shopping mall and apartment ideas. Didn't know that. Didn't Carthage also invent glass too?

And I agree about our modern perception of the ancients' intelligence. They were just as accomplished and in some ways more innovative than modern engineers. There's some things they did that we can't figure out how they did even today and can't be replicated exactly.

[Fluvius Camillus]

Thanks for this Jeb!

Also in an airplane, I suggest you just sit in the middle, then you dont have to view out of the window.

Don't let something that little block you from seeing such marvels.

~Fluvius

[glouch]

MAN those 3D models look good. does anyone here know by any chance what program was used to create them?