carthage wins

Basically what I'm wondering is what the future holds for Rome in a world where Carthage won the Second Punic War. I doubt Carthage would do anything as drastic as conquer all of Rome. They'd probably just take back Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica. So after a Roman humiliation, what would happen...

This alternate history is intended to be a combination of alternate history and hallucinatory images of impossible worlds. As such, it will not focus on detailing of traditional facts, but shall give its account through participants in history who might or might not have been real. It shall keep...

OTL: 500-480s BCE, Doric Greek "tyrants" became the dominant powers in Sicily, most especially the city of Gela. Gela, led by Gelon, takes Syracuse and makes it his capital. Gelon undertakes an ethnic cleansing of Ionian Greeks and Sicels. Ionian Greeks requested aid and support from Carthage...

A while back, I posted a thread asking what the maximum plausible extent of the Roman Empire might have been. Well, consider this something of a companion thread. Imagine a world where Carthage had decisively defeated Rome at some point during the Punic Wars (choose whatever specific point of...

One interesting First Punic War POD that I have had includes Hiero II staying allied with Carthage instead of turning on his ally, allowing a general Carthaginian victory or even stalemate in Sicily, and preventing the chain of events that lead to the loss in all Punic Wars and the eventual...