This quote would most likely come out of a textbook that could be related to people who would support social darwinism. For that reason 3. Social Darwinism is the correct answer.
Social Darwinism talks exactly about this type of things where people and whole nations are in the struggle for survival and only the fittest ones will survive in this ongoing struggle.
Two, one male and one female, in the hopes that they would sex it up and repopulate the earth.
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I think they opposes it because of Political Reasons as they thought it would hurt them and bring them down.
The Second Punic War was waged between Rome and Carthage between 218-201 BC and the First Punic War happened between 264 and 241 BC.
While the First Punic war was fought under the control of Sicily, the Second Punic War included confrontations between a bigger number of territories (Spain, Sicily, Sardinia, Italy and North Africa).
The First Punic War did not break the strength and influence of Carthage completely, however it dramatically empowered Rome. After The Second Punic War Rome became the hegemon of the Western Mediterranean, and Carthage lost its powerful position.
