Here we have evidence from Sardinia, of Carthage deeming the locals' culture as worthy of obliteration.
(I admit: I had to look up the perfect-tense. I had the notion it was "deluit" for some reason. Maybe in the vulgate.)
That agrees with such genetic evidence as shows a thorough demic replacement of Sardinia's gene-pool with a heavy Levantine infusion. In simpler terms those guys did a Puerto Rico on the island. Not so different from what they'd do in Spain, when the Romans started paying attention.
All I can say is... the balls on those guys. Seriously: Carthage were the people whose main contributions to Western civilisation were a book on how best to handle slaves and the word tophet. And they dared treat the Sardinians as savages.
Rome committed many wrongs, over its long and violent history; but not to Carthage.
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