Rome got so large because the aristocrats in Rome were driving all the regular farmers off their land so they could set up slave run estates, all the displaced farmers went to the city. do we know whether or not the same thing was going on in Carthage's empire before Rome destroyed it?

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tim_mcdaniel

That's commonly stated about Rome, but do we actually know that? I dimly recall seeing a rebuttal, but I don't remember details.