What happened to Carthage after the Punic Wars?
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After Scipio had won (202) the battle of Zama , Carthage sued for peace. All its warships and its possessions outside Africa were lost, but Carthage recovered commercially and remained prosperous. Deep divisions among the Carthaginian political parties, however, gave Rome (and particularly Cato the Elder ) the pretext to fight the Third Punic War (149-146 BC), which ended with the total destruction of Carthaginian power and the razing of the city by Scipio Africanus Minor . Romans later undertook to build a new city (Colonia Junonia) on the spot in 122 BC, but the project failed. A new city was founded in 44 BC and under Augustus became an important center of Roman administration. Carthage was later (AD 439-533) the capital of the Vandals and was briefly recovered (533) for the Byzantine Empire by Belisarius. Although practically destroyed by Arabs in 698, the site was populated for many centuries afterward.
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