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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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d .statedly, at ageneral election at which Right of suf-the people were voters, llf::^^^The suffrage was not, in- society,deed, universal, but was limited bywealth and birth and personal merit. THE CA NA A NITES.—CA R THA GINIA NS. 877 The suffetes held office for one year, butmight be reelected. There was a senatecomposed of Carthaginian nobles, war-riors, and priests; but whether or not itwas divided into two houses has notbeen determined. The organization, onthe whole, was not unlike that of theRomans, to which it was second only instrength and efficiency. It is claimed by the Roman historians Bodies of commissioners called pcntarch-ics, selected from the principal families,becaine very powerful in Evolution and limiting and influencing influence of thethe constituted authorities. ^^^ ^^°The Carthaginian council, consisting ofa hundred and four members, generallyconformed to the will of the pentarchies.The latter came at length to be the chiefforce in the state. Wielding popular
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CARTHAGINIAN GENERAL BEFORE THE SOPHETIM—Drawn by W. J. Morgan. and philosophers that the administra-tion of Carthage was corrupt, and thathribery was universally practiced in theelections. If so, it were no more thanmight be witnessed in Rome herself, andin nearly all other nations having apopular or half-popular form of govern-ment. In course of time a popular body grewup in Carthage resembling the Plebs, orCommons, of Rome. Officers were chosento represent this element in the state. opinion, they were able to put up andput down the greatest civil and militaryleaders of the age. As colonists, as a people, as a nation,the Carthaginians retained the religionof the parent state. Like Religious char-all the other Semites, they Se^thetirrwere profoundly religious, i^ood.Indeed, it were hard to distinguish inthe case of any of these peoples betweenthe secular and the religious life. Thepriest and the civil officer held nearly 578 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. identical relations to the people

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