Event

King Mago I has abandoned Carthage's purely…

537 BCE – 526 BCE North Africa

King Mago I has abandoned Carthage's purely citizen army and begun depending heavily on mercenaries, the city’s small population base forcing him to do so.

His son Hasdrubal I succeeds hime in 530 BCE.

Carthage, mostly under the leadership of the Magonid dynasty, establishes a commercial empire that will dominate Western Mediterranean trade during the latter half of the sixth century BCE.