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Talk:World History Midterm Exam (view source)
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: Wow, perhaps this a "mystery", then. More info is welcome. Carthage was destroyed, and Wikipedia is not a great source.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 18:10, 1 April 2009 (EDT)
: Wow, perhaps this a "mystery", then. More info is welcome. Carthage was destroyed, and Wikipedia is not a great source.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 18:10, 1 April 2009 (EDT)
::Yes, Carthage was ''destroyed'' in 146 BC. It was burned and many of its inhabitants sold as slaves. Apparantly the claim that Rome salted the fields was only asserted in the 19th century. Here the citation for it being a probable myth: Ridley, R.T., "To Be Taken with a Pinch of Salt: The Destruction of Carthage," Classical Philology vol. 81, no. 2 (1986).
Also, salt was expensive and valuble at the time, and the Romans used grain in trade, so the idea that Romans would waste salt destroying fields is perhaps unlikely.
Here's a link that seems to accept the salting as historical, although it gives an insight into the cost of it:http://www.tomorrowlands.org/misc/salt.html. [[User:AddisonDM|AddisonDM]] 19:18, 1 April 2009 (EDT)