Hannibal's Mercenaries: How Carthage Paid for Its Army

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Hannibal's Mercenaries: How Carthage Paid for Its Army

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In 218 BC, Hannibal Barca marched into Italy with a polyglot army of Iberians, Gauls, Libyans, Numidians, and Balearic slingers — men who fought for Carthage not out of loyalty, but for pay. This episode looks at how Carthage recruited, funded, and held together its mercenary forces, from the silver mines of Cartago Nova to the oath of allegiance at Ba'al Hammon's temple. We explore the Libyphoenician mix, the role of Iberian warlords like Cerdubelius, the deserters problem, and the brutal lesson of the Mercenary War that haunted Carthaginian strategy. Polybius and Livy give us fragments; we piece together the economics and logistics of a war machine that nearly broke Rome. #HannibalBarca #Carthage #Mercenaries #Iberia #Numidia #Polybius #Livy #CartagoNova #BaalHammon #MercenaryWar #Libyphoenician #BalearicSlingers #PunicWars #AncientMilitary #SilverMines #HamilcarBarca #History #FexingoHistory Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo

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