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Rome Didn't Salt Carthage's Fields — It Bought Them
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Rome Didn't Salt Carthage's Fields — It Bought Them

A single ledger entry in 146 BC, scrawled into a merchant's accounts, tipped the balance of the entire Mediterranean.

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