Why the city of Carthage in North Africa was a main target of conquest for the Romans

This was becayse carthage in North Africa, manily snuck in and stole the Romans goods, as they were rich and wealthy base on their resources

Explanation:

well the fact it is basically a peninsula allowed trade to come from many places, thus allowing cultural diffusion to take place. india has seasonal monsoons that merchants travel back and forth from india using the monsoons wind patterns

it affected it because the kingdoms (with trade) slowly got richer and richer.