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hunterpaynetoday at 12:15 AM0 repliesview on HN

Plenty of people know who Hannibal Barca was. But sure, they probably don't know anything else about Carthage.

Fun fact, the main lesson from that war on the Carthaginian side was that you never let the merchants control the state in a time of war. There was a point where Hannibal was one siege away from erasing Rome from the history books and the leaders in Carthage called him back because sieges are expensive. This decision cost those leaders everything. Most of western history ever since swung on this lone bad decision. Its one of the few true inflection points in history.