I'm getting a welcome fresh air of free time now that summer break is fast approaching, so I figured I'd use it to reboot my timelines.What a coincidence! I just discovered this TL via some nice user who gave me the link on my "What if the Celts had conquered Roma instead of Looting it" thread.
Thanks, glad to know there's still interest in this timeline.Welcome back SFD, glad to see this one again.
I have plans for the Ligurians and Carthage may or may not be involved.You know what you should do?
Carthaginians help the Ligurians out via trade and culture.
Wow, I feel important now. It's a good day when I know my timeline helped bring a new contributor to this site.Ah brilliant. This and the whole Lands of Red and Gold are the two things that really made me want to contribute to the site, so I'm glad to see it back up and running.
(Although I confess I'm 90% just curious what's gonna happen to the East...)
Ask and ye shall receive (well, sometime today or tomorrow).The next map will have to be of the East, given that I have no idea what's going on anymore.
Thank you!I'm thrilled you decided to pick it up again! I'm a big fan of your work.
Will the die also be cast?
Ambiguity is my intension. I'd rather reveal all the events that happened as we go along. Just telling you what happened removes the point of my time lapse.Which Kingdoms are Hellenistic and which ones aren't? Heck would you mind adding some short profiles for all of the listed countries and what has happened since last time?
I prefer the Greek spelling (Kelts or Keltoi) for the timeline mostly because it's the only alternative I have in absence of Latin. Unless you were making a distinction between potentially Hellenized Kelts and Italicized Celts. In any case, I'm not entirely sure how I'm going to handle the Celts in Northern Italy yet. If you noticed on the map, the Senones are no more, Rome under the control of Veii, ironically enough. Though there is certainly ripe fertile Etruscan land available in Etruria for the Padus Valley Celts....Oh jesus
Are we gonna have Italicized Celts (notice the "C") in Italy forming kingdoms?
Ambiguity is my intension. I'd rather reveal all the events that happened as we go along. Just telling you what happened removes the point of my time lapse.
I prefer the Greek spelling (Kelts or Keltoi) for the timeline mostly because it's the only alternative I have in absence of Latin. Unless you were making a distinction between potentially Hellenized Kelts and Italicized Celts. In any case, I'm not entirely sure how I'm going to handle the Celts in Northern Italy yet. If you noticed on the map, the Senones are no more, Rome under the control of Veii, ironically enough. Though there is certainly ripe fertile Etruscan land available in Etruria for the Padus Valley Celts....
EDIT: I forgot to label them on the map, but that grew mark in between Babylon and Egypt is an independent Tyre.
Well, eventually, even without Roman "civilization", there will be Greek influences and maybe even Etruscan expansion (They only have so much room) into the north, so I think a Celtic-Keltic-Italic kingdom in the Po Valley relatively (as in a couple hundred years or so) wouldn't be too unrealistic.
I'm not sure if the Etruscans are going to expand north again to close to where their northern boundary is, or if it will be the Celts expanding south. The Etruscans, poor them, are kind of sandwiched in the middle of what the Celts and the Oscans...