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Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Rome—Growth of Carthage 323 Rome were based on the principle of political non-interference. She estab-lished trade along the coasts of Northern Africa, of Spain, of Sardinia, and ofCorsica. Through the Phocaeans of Massilia, she reached the swarming pop-ulation of Transalpine Gaul; she worked the iron mines of Ilva, the silvermines of the Balearic Isles, and the gold mines of Spain, trading with theBritons for tin and with the Frisians and Cimbri for amber. When shefound her establishments in danger, she protected them with fortresses.Abundantly supplied with money, she had no trouble in enlisting what mer-cenaries she needed, and these included Libyans and Moors from Africa, Span-iards, Gauls, Greeks, and also Italians, who were trained under her own officersand disciplined into the best of soldiers. Now here was Rome, which had brought all of Italy under subjection, andwas beginning to look out over the adjoining world for more territory to con-quer. Just across from Sicily loomed

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