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During the punic wars, how did the Romans continue to recruit armies after massive defeats like cannae where 50 to 70 thousand Romans died and why wasn’t Carthage able to do the same while having control over more resources than Rome?

by /u/BALTIM0RE in /r/AskHistorians

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