= Decline and Fall = (9)

Explore the Decline and Fall of Phoenician and Carthaginian civilizations in Age of Empires IV, from 900 B.C. to 146 B.C.

The Phoenician home cities were under the control of eastern conquerors from approximately 900 to 332 B.C. They were unable to repel the armies of Assyria, Babylon, and Persia, though they often paid them off. In 332 B.C., Alexander the Great conquered them individually, ending their intermittent independence and causing them to become Greek cities, losing their Phoenician identity permanently.

The Carthaginians persisted for another 200 years. After successfully holding off Greek expansion beyond Sicily for many centuries, they were defeated by the more populous and organized Romans. At the conclusion of the Punic Wars in 146 B.C., the inhabitants of Carthage were enslaved, and the city was destroyed.