The Founders on Carthage and Germania

The Founders on Carthage and Germania

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S1 E6: Beyond Rome and Greece, the founders took inspiration from ancient Carthage. Learn about their view of Carthage as a break-away Phoenician colony with admirable government, whose major threats from Rome mirrored America’s own from the British. See also how American revolutionaries invoked the history of the Germanic Saxons’ subjection to British rule to criticize the British monarchy.