Assertion: empire's wealth | /r/HasProperty | attained by lower classes
Facets:
value: due to carthage's mercantile economy
type: CAUSE
value: ostensibly by
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Since wealth could ostensibly by attained by even the lower classes, due to Carthage's mercantile economy, this would imply that both citizenship and membership in the aristocracy were relatively accessible by ancient standards.