 ... Part of the land was planted with vines, part with olives and other productive trees.Beyond these, cattle and sheep were pastured on the plains, and there were meadows with grazing horses.Greek cities contested with Carthage for the Western Mediterranean culminating in the Sicilian Wars and the Pyrrhic War over Sicily, while the Romans fought three wars against Carthage, known as the Punic Wars, "Punic" meaning "Phoenician" in Latin, as Carthage was a Phoenician colony grown into a kingdom.