Quote Originally Posted by Fenring
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.
They were eventually conquered by Mongols, who later converted to Islam, thus setting up the Mughal dynasties...