On: How Good Was Napoleon? (2007)

[restalis]

Cartage was a colony of Phoenicians (before it become a thing of its own), so not European in any case.

[lazyant → restalis]

I'm no historian or geographer but I never thought of considering the north African cultures of the time as not European, since Mediterranean at a time seemed a uniting force and not a dividing one like now. Perhaps my European-centric vision talking.