Gladius (music Producer)
''Gladius'' () is a Latin word properly referring to the type of sword that was used by ancient Roman foot soldiers starting from the 3rd century BC and until the 3rd century AD. Linguistically, within Latin, the word also came to mean "sword", regardless of the type used. Early ancient Roman swords were similar to those of the Greeks, called '' xiphe'' (, : ''xiphos''). From the 3rd century BC, however, the Romans adopted a weapon based on the sword of the Celtiberians of Hispania in service to Carthage during the Punic Wars, known in Latin as the ''gladius hispaniensis'', meaning " Hispanic-type sword". The Romans improved the weapon, modified it depending on how their battle units waged war, and created over time new types of "gladii" such as the ''Mainz gladius'' and the ''Pompeii gladius''. Finally, in the third century AD the heavy Roman infantry replaced the ''gladius'' with the '' spatha'' (already common among Roman cavalrymen), relegating the ''gladius'' as a weap ...
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Carthaginian Spain
The Carthaginian presence in Iberia is long and has been influential on the region. Background The Phoenicians were a people from the eastern Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean who were mainly traders from the cities of Tyre, Lebanon, Tyre, Sidon, and Byblos. They established many trading colonies around the Mediterranean Sea, including colonies in Spain. In the year 814 BC, they founded the city of Carthage on the north African coast in what is now Tunisia. After the fall of Phoenicia to the Babylonians and then the Persians, Ancient Carthage, Carthage became the most powerful Phoenician city in the Mediterranean and the Carthaginian (people), Carthaginians annexed many of the other Phoenician colonies around the coasts of the western Mediterranean, such as Hadrumetum and Thapsus. They also annexed territory in Sicilia (Roman province), Sicily, Africa (Roman province), Africa, Corsica and Sardinia, Sardinia. The Spanish city of Cartagena, Spain, Cartagena was founded around 227 BC ...
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