The Western Hemisphere. General term for the Americas following their discovery by Europeans, thus setting them in contradistinction to the Old World of Africa, Europe, and Asia.
It was the Phoenicians (starting in the Bronze Age).
But the article that kb posted called the amphorae in question 2'd century BC Roman and by the end of the 2d century BC the Romans and overrun your precious Carthaginians as well. They had already taken Spain from the Carthaginians at the end of the 3d century BC and where the Roman army went, its merchants soon followed.
However, even that doesn't matter. Amphorae were ubiquitous. Everyone used them as shipping containers. Just because the amphorae were "Roman" does not mean the ship carrying them was also. However, had they made it back they would have ended up at a port which if not "Roman" itself would have been linked to other ports which were. Such fantastic news could not have been hushed up.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
Rokcet Scientist wrote: And the Phoenicians kept the sources/origins of their exotic and extremely valuable commodities ("spices" = drugs like cannabis, opium, cocaïne, and tobacco) secret. State secrets. Especially from their biggest rival, the Romans. And the dumb Romans (dumb as in blissfully unaware) hated Phoenicians. Mainly out of ordinary envy for their fantabulous economic success for well over a millennium. Which was due to their global drug running trade. In the hood they call it bling envy. I call it greed.
Extrapolating on this old load of shite again are we?
Because that's what you've posted-a long discredited load of bunk dredged up to support your crackbrained theories.
Rokcet Scientist wrote: And the Phoenicians kept the sources/origins of their exotic and extremely valuable commodities ("spices" = drugs like cannabis, opium, cocaïne, and tobacco) secret. State secrets. Especially from their biggest rival, the Romans. And the dumb Romans (dumb as in blissfully unaware) hated Phoenicians. Mainly out of ordinary envy for their fantabulous economic success for well over a millennium. Which was due to their global drug running trade. In the hood they call it bling envy. I call it greed.
Extrapolating on this old load of shite again are we?
Because that's what you've posted-a long discredited load of bunk dredged up to support your crackbrained theories.
And now we wait to see how you support that verbal diarreah.
Probably in vain.
