How They Did It - Growing Up Carthaginian DOCUMENTARY

In this documentary we peer into the mysterious history of ancient Carthage. We know precious little about their civilization with most sources focusing primarily on macro level affairs like politics, trade, and warfare. However in this documentary we attempt to reconstruct what it would have been like to grow up in ancient Carthage and experience daily life in the past.

We begin with a quick overview of the social landscape by discussing the city's foundation as a Phoenician colony, the government of Carthage, its social order, and typical family unit. Next we turn to the birth of a child and the naming process which accompanied their survival of this dangerous milestone. Next we look at the typical family life in which they were raised, their eventual entry into the workforce, and their own marriages that would give birth to a new generation.

To bring it all to life we also present two hypothetical life stories of a rich and a poor Carthaginian to give you a real sense for what it would have been like to grow up in the past.

If you want to see more videos about Carthage we have many other episodes which cover things like the Rise of Carthage, The Punic Wars, Carthage's Other Wars, the Government of Carthage, the Religion of Carthage, Exploration in Ancient Carthage, and much more!

Bibliography and suggested reading:
"The Carthaginians" by Dexter Hoyos
"Carthage's Other Wars" by Dexter Hoyos
"Carthage Must be Destroyed" by Richard Miles
"The Fall of Carthage" by Adrian Goldsworthy

Credits:
Research: Vaughn Fenton
Script: Vaughn Fenton
Narration: Invicta
Artwork: Beverly Johnson
Editing: Penta Limited

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#Carthage
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[InvictaHistory]

I love Carthaginian history and hope you do to. What topics would you like to see covered next?
In the meantime check out these other episodes on Carthage:

[iamwhatitorture]

Personally, I think the videos about average peoples lives are the most fascinating, they show much more of what it was actually like to live there.

[debraboutom]

16:53 I like that you put in the detail that ancient soldiers had PTSD as well. Makes this feel a lot more real, not sugarcoated.

[stephenknizek]

Zuckerba’al moves on to form an association he calls BookFace.

[revanius]

It's so frustrating that there is so little information on Carthaginian daily lives, as much as I love ancient Rome I wish they had not been so thorough in their destruction of the city.

[ayoubomri]

I live 2 kilometers from Carthage in a small coastal town called "La Marsa" which means the port in English. Carthage is epic especially during sunset I go there practically every day.

[rtaraquin]

If Carthaginian names survived and pronunciations were corrupted:
"By the time the war ends in 307 BC, Soccerball is a changed man."

[Napkin-wdhw]

Last night, the crying of children kept me awake…
-Rome Total War Creepy Carthage Intro Guy

[DrunkenCoward]

Senator: Have you ever wondered how Carthagian kids grow up?

Scipio Aemilianus: They *don't.*

[kirstenpaff]

Videos like this always make me wonder what future historians will believe about our current society. I could just imagine the academic throw downs where different historians use Mommy blogs and parenting books to support their theory on how children were raised in the early 21st century.
Historian A: "Clearly this civilization thought that dairy was evil and only gave their children plant based drinks."
Historian B: "I have unearthed clear evidence of dairy consumption. I have found recorded footage of propaganda for milk consumption on an ancient data storage device my team unearthed. If one translates from the ancient English, the common refrain in all of these was "Havest thou milk?".

[CursedDepartmentEastOffice]

The thing that makes Carthage just as fascinating as the Greeks and Romans has gotta be their diverse trade empire status. There's simply something fascinating about how a Carthaginian merchant family might have been made up of a Greek wife, Punic/North African husband, all while interacting with African-Italians and conducting trading throughout the Mediterranean. Might have even been friends with the local Gallic or Iberian mercenary soldier.

[SandRhomanHistory]

Well, I'm early, it seems. Excited for this one.

[samhaleyeah]

Writing a Historical Fantasy novel set after the fall of Carthage in 146 BCE and will certainly be listing Invicta in the acknowledgments/sources portion of the novel. Your Carthaginian series has really helped synthesize some of my research.

[misseli]

*Invicta:* Zakarbaal
*Default Captions:* Zuckerball?
*Invicta:* Zakarbaal
*Default Captions:* Socer ball?
*Invicta:* Zakarbaal
*Default Captaions:* Zuckerburg?

[Argos-xbek]

Mago was my favorite character they should've done more with him.

[a.s.]

I'm Tunisian and I'm glad to see Carthaginian history being revived and discussed 😀 The romans made their level best to erase the memory of Carthage and the Carthaginians. Carthaginians were a mixture of native amazigh (ancient Libyans/numidians) and Phoenicians. When you say "african" it's better to specify North African or Amazigh otherwise could be misunderstood as being black african.

[justanotherrandomfilipino]

Carthage, doing literally anything:

Cato: *C A R T H A G O D E L E N D A E S T*

[TheAchraf]

Commenting from modern Carthage (Tunisia, north Africa) ! Great video mate thank you :)

[allonzehe]

I love this "how they did it" series. Always so fascinating.

[thesnake]

I find it so sad that we don't have many accounts about Carthage they're fascinating