Your statement's a bit too broad. Take the empire of Carthage, which Rome saw as a threat to its own imperial ambitions. Rome and Carthage clashed, and Rome eventually crushed Carthage and raised the city to its foundations. Carthage wasn't decadent at that time, any more than Rome was; they just got crushed by a more powerful foe.
True. Wasn't Carthage on the African side of the Mediterranean though? Maybe they had the same problems as Egypt and it weakened them. I'm trying to think of other examples of one white empire erasing another but everything I can think of ended with the losers being given mercy. Makes it strange that Carthage was just mercilessly obliterated. Maybe they became like Rome's Mexico.
I'm trying to think of other examples of one white empire erasing another but everything I can think of ended with the losers being given mercy.
The ending of the German Empire after WW1, and the destruction of the Third Reich?
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