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Carthage Trivia Quiz

The Carthaginians were a remarkable people, with remarkable talents and flaws, this is a fairly easy quiz about them - that is, easy if you know about them already.

A multiple-choice quiz by bobalmighty. Estimated time: 3 mins.

Author
bobalmighty

Time
3 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
208,585

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

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1185

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Question 1 of 10

1. Where is Carthage? Hint

About ten miles from Tunis, Tunisia

About fifty miles from Rome, on the Appian way

Near Casablanca in modern Morrocco

In Sicily

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Question 2 of 10

2. The Carthaginians practised human sacrifice.

True

False

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Question 3 of 10

3. What was the language spoken in Carthage? Hint

Old Arabic

Latin

Punic

Aramaic

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Question 4 of 10

4. In what year was Carthage founded and by whom? Hint

814 BC by Protoculus

144 BC by Dido

56 BC by Brutus

814 BC by Elishat

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Question 5 of 10

5. In what year did Carthage fall? Hint

218 BC

146BC

1213 AD

76 AD

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Question 6 of 10

6. Which of these best described Carthage's system of government? Hint

Oligarchy

Monarchy

Democracy

Theocracy

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Question 7 of 10

7. In which battle did the Carthaginians suffer a catastrophic defeat in 480BC? And who was the enemy general? Hint

Himera, Gelon

Antioch, Xerxes

Salamis, Xenephon

Zama, Scipio Africanus

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Question 8 of 10

8. The Carthaginians were great sailors. One Carthaginian admiral completed an amazing voyage round the west coast of Africa. Who was he? Hint

Adherebal

Camilcar the Explorer

Hanno the Navigator

Bomilcar

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Question 9 of 10

9. The Carthaginians used elephants in warfare.

True

False

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Question 10 of 10

10. What does Carthage mean? Hint

Old city

New city

Big city

White city

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Where is Carthage?

Answer: About ten miles from Tunis, Tunisia

Carthage was a massive city (of possibly up to one million people) of which Tunis was only a suburb, but now the situation is reversed.

2. The Carthaginians practised human sacrifice.

Answer: True

No-one knows for certain whether they did or not, and most of the evidence comes from the Romans, who hated the Carthaginians and accused them of almost everything else, however most historians beleive they did do it.

3. What was the language spoken in Carthage?

Answer: Punic

They spoke a Semitic language of their own, which probably had some relation Aramaic, however small. Traces of the Punic language can be found in the language of Malta, however as far as I know it is now a dead language.

4. In what year was Carthage founded and by whom?

Answer: 814 BC by Elishat

According to legend Carthage was founded in 814 BC by refugees from the Phonecian city of Tyre led by a woman called Elishat, who came to be known as Dido, the wanderer.

5. In what year did Carthage fall?

Answer: 146BC

The Romans had a genocidal hatred of the Carthaginians, and when they attacked the city, they butchered its inhabitants, hundreds of thousands of people. The 50,000 survivors were sold into slavery. They did the same at Corinth shortly afterwards.

6. Which of these best described Carthage's system of government?

Answer: Oligarchy

Carthage was run by a senate of the richest people in the city, presided over by two magistrates called "sueffetes". This system was widely praised by Greek writers, but later it became too democratic for their taste.

7. In which battle did the Carthaginians suffer a catastrophic defeat in 480BC? And who was the enemy general?

Answer: Himera, Gelon

The Carthaginians had been pressing the Sicilians hard, but this battle completely reversed the situation, the Carthaginians never really threatened the Greek city states on the island again.

8. The Carthaginians were great sailors. One Carthaginian admiral completed an amazing voyage round the west coast of Africa. Who was he?

Answer: Hanno the Navigator

The Carthaginians were the only Mediteranean people to frequently go past the Pillars of Hercules (the straits of Gibraltar) even trading as far as Cornwall, and some people believe they even reached the Americas.

9. The Carthaginians used elephants in warfare.

Answer: True

They became rather famous for it. They used the smaller African Forrest elephant, rather than the African or Asian, the majority of people know something about Hannibal and his elephants, without knowing any more.

10. What does Carthage mean?

Answer: New city

Carthage was founded near to an existing Phoenician colony called Utica (the old city), the Carthaginian name was Qart Hadasht.

Source: Author bobalmighty

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