At the end of the Third Punic War, the Romans systematically burned Carthage to the ground and enslaved its population.
The term was popularized by the 20th century economist John Maynard Keynes.
There is no ancient evidence for modern accounts that the Romans sowed the ground with salt.
The Morgenthau Plan put forward after World War II has also been described as a Carthaginian peace, as it advocated the deindustrialization of Germany.
West Germany was regarded as a key bulwark against the Eastern Bloc.