They mainly established trading stations as bases from which toconduct their trading activities around the Mediterranean. One ofthem grew into a colony and then an independent city-state carryingon its own trading – Carthage. It established its ownstations inSpain and the Barca family developed this into a territory whichthey ruled, which brought them into a conflict with n expandingRome in the Punic Wars.

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