帕特森以古代世界开始，探讨了罗马获得主宰地位，尤其是他们在布匿战争中击败迦太基人的流行解释。
Paterson begins in the ancient world, considering popular explanations for the ascendance of Rome and, in particular, their victory over Carthage in the Punic Wars.
这是当地一种古老的运输方式，已经有数百年历史，可追溯到第一次布匿战争期间，当时的汉尼拔就曾使用大象。
Supplies and some of its personnel aboard the powerful, plodding elephants which are a form of native transport dating back centuries to Hannibal during the First Punic War.(AP Photo/Horst Faas)
“腓尼基”是希腊人对这一地区的称谓，意思是“紫色之国”，因该地盛产紫色染料而得名。罗马人则称之为“布匿”。
"As far as Phoenicia" is Greek to the region to name means "the kingdom of purple", because the area is rich in purple dye the name. The Roman people call it "unseen" cloth.
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