2. Collect pictures of Rome and Italy.

3. Is there a modern city of Carthage? What country rules over
Tunis? Are there now any Phoenicians?

4. Read the description of Tyre in the Bible, Ezekiel xxvii. 3-25,
and tell what is said there about the riches of the Tyrians. Find
out who destroyed Tyre.

[Illustration: AN EARLY ROMAN COIN]




CHAPTER VI


THE MEDITERRANEAN A ROMAN LAKE

ROME IN PERIL. The conquest of Italy by the Romans took about two
hundred and fifty years. The conquest of the peoples living in the
other lands on the shores of the Mediterranean took nearly as long
again. Only twice in these four or five hundred years was Rome in
serious danger of destruction. Once it was by the Gauls, as we have
read, who captured all the city except the citadel. The second time it
was by the Carthaginians, who lived on the northern coast of Africa.
The Romans were finally victorious over all their enemies because they
were patient and courageous in misfortune and refused to believe that
they could be conquered.