Quote Originally Posted by Maeran
When miscellaneous includes towns then there are several in the history of India (mainly in the context of Rajputs making a ritualised last stand against Muslims from the Sultanates, but there were some against the British too I think) and there is also Carthage. The demands were ridiculous, and even if they had moved the city, probably the Romans would have gone even further, but the Carthaginians defied Rome, even though it did mean extinction.
I don't know about the Islamic conquests of India, but I figure that the main reason they resisted so fiercely is because they know they'd be forcibly converted (or perhaps extinguished) under muslim rule- that sorta thing simply doesn't apply for RTW's timeframe.
The Carthaginians had no choice. IIRC, their trade caravans were continuously harrassed by Numidians and the treaty they signed with Rome at the end of the 2nd Punic War forbade them from doing anything about them without the consent of Rome, wich they withheld. The Romans deliberately did this to produce a casus belli for the total destruction of Carthage, the idea came from Cato the elder I believe.