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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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heir last standfor the defen.se of their altars. At last thisstronghold was also carried, and with it w-erecaptured the remaining fifty thou.sand inhabi-tants of the doomed city. These were carriedaway into slavery. Scipio, glancing over theruin of what had so recently been the proud-est emporiiun of Northern Africa, is said tohave had a presentiment of a .similar doom forRome, and to have repeated in sadness a jno- Tlie dav sliall surelv come wlien sacred Troy shallfall,And Priam and tlie iJeople of the asli-spearedPriam fall. BOME.— THE PUNIC WARS. Oa his return to Rome, Scipin was hnnnn-dwith a luaguiticeiit triumph, aud the surnameof Afrieauus, which he had already receivedfrom his adoptive father, was renewed in hi.s own right by the voice ^f In- (■..nmiviuen. ^Vhen Carthage was no more, the RomanSenate proceeded to reiirganize Africa. Therecently concjuered territory was annexed to theother dominions of Rome on the African coast,aud Utica was made the capital. The district.*
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