Rome is snuffed out in its infancy
If Carthage won the Punic Wars
The Eternal Flame Dies Out: Rome Loses The Siege of Veii
That would be interesting to see how Italy with domineering Etruscans look like. Or may be the Mediterranean Sea would be the Etruscan lake? Well don't expect Veii to become the new Rome. I'm not sure if I am going to have a single state dominate the Italian peninsula yet.
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The Wars of the Greeks (or: the Hellenistic Age uninterrupted)
A very short TL, based very much on this discussion thread, on a subject we often return to: what if Rome had been broken early on? This question can have many answers, based on countless variables. The exact cause of Rome's defeat or destruction not least among them! In this instance, I'll...
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The Weighted Scales: The World of an Aborted Rome
The Weighted Scales: The World of an Aborted Rome By Errnge Prologue: A Blip In History Part One: The Rise of the Rasna Precious little is known about the Rasna [1] in their early times. Most modern archaeologists agree that they were the descendants of Anatolian colonizers, possibly...
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Barbaria: A World Without Rome
There are a lot of TL's out there about a world where Rome continues or gets bigger, so on, so forth. As awesome as they all are, I would like to examine a world without Rome. I have since given up on my Eire TL, generally because no one really seemed that interested, so I failed to see the...
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Modern Religion Without Rome
As it says not the tin, what would the religious map of Europe possibly look like without Rome. Let's go with it being destroyed by the Etruscans and the destruction leaves no traces for history. Any rough timelines or maps would be brilliant
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In a world where the Roman Empire never existed would christianity still exist?
In this scenario, Rome is destroyed in 387 BC by the Gauls. So the Persian Empire is in control of Judea. Would Christianity still exist in this timeline?
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Look To The East: A World Without Rome
"To blunder twice is not allowed in war" ~Latin Proverb Excerpt From, A History Of The Tyrrhenians by Dioskoros of Syrakusa circa, 490s-480s AE; Modern translation by Hamilket Barak (1980* University of New Carthage press) According to their own accounts, the city of Veii was founded by...
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What if Rome Never Existed
Saw this get released today and it got me thinking, if Rome did get annihilated by the Gauls or puppeted by the Etruscans as AHH suggests what do you guys think happens to the Gauls, Greeks, Germans, Britons, etc? Obviously Kody will go into it next ep but thats a while away most likely and im...
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Stillborn Rome: Who dominates the Mediterranean
In a scenario where Rome remained a minor Italian city-state (or at most, a regional power in the Italian peninsula), who dominates the Mediterranean and becomes an "ersatz-Rome" and why? Carthage? Ptolemeic Egypt? Macedonia? The Seleucids? Someone else?
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Alternatives to Christianity in a world without Rome
In this timeline, Rome was destroyed by Gauls in 387 BC. As a result, the Parthians control the Levant and Egypt. Christianity is butterflied away because: 1. Jesus was killed by the Romans 2. Centuries of oppression of Jews by Greeks and Romans led to Jews looking for a messiah. The Parthians...
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AHC/WI: Carthage Wins the Second Punic Wars
How can Carthage Win the second Punic Wars and what will be the effects of its? OTL Carthage obviously lost the war with harsh terms imposed on it , so how harsh of a treaty would the Punics impose on Rome in case of a Punic Victory? What will be the fate of the Barcids and the Roman Italian...
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Punic Steel-How the Professional Army of Carthage Defeated Rome
The Saw-Tunisia-238 BC Hamilcar Barca stood amidst the carnage of his great Victory, having just ended the threat of the Mercenary Rebellion. As he moved amongst the bodies of the slain, his men began counting prisoners, there were some 40,000 assorted mercenary troops from all over the Empire...
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Hannibal's Wake
This timeline is a rewrite and expansion of In the Shade of the Baobabs, my first timeline. It explores the possible consequences of a world where Hannibal wins the Second Punic War and Carthage maintains its dominance in the Western Mediterranean. It focuses mostly on Africa while...
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The Punic Wars: The Possiblility of Carthage defeating Rome
Hey guys sorry I haven't post in a while I've been kind of busy. You see I'm going to make a movie about a famous historian but don't know which one yet. Also I've been planning to make an AH of America it'll be good. However busy or not I have been reading through the threads and seen your guys...
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How would Iberia develop in the absence of Carthage and Rome?
The various Paleo-Hispanic and Indo-European peoples, known as Iberians, were successful mercenaries, accomplished horse-riders, excellent traders, and gold-workers. They seemed to have been on the path to developing full-fledged kingdoms and empires on the scale of the Carthaginians, Romans...
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AHC: Phoenician colony in Britain
I don’t know how this could be accomplished, but how could you get the Phoenicians and/or Carthaginians to establish a permanent presence, perhaps even colonies, in the British Isles? Could this be done using refugees from the Third Punic War?
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ΙCΑΡΝΟΝΑΡΙΟΙ - The Lords of Iron
ΙCΑΡΝΟΝΑΡΙΟΙ The Lords of Iron - History of the Galatians and the Oikouménē where Hannibal defeated Rome - INTRODUCTION Ancient Gaul was for a long time a terra incognita, something that was barely worth mention except to highlight what Rome, the civilization, was. Strangely, it’s not...
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WI: Carthage Wins First Punic War?
So looking through the major battles of the First Punic War, the Carthaginians lost a lot of battles where they actually outnumbered the Romans. Given the near-exhaustion of the Romans at the end of the war, I think the Carthaginians could have beaten the Romans if they could reliably win...
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Implications of a surviving Carthage on Subsaharan Africa
Presuming that Carthage survives and maintains its extensive trading network, even some of its more adventurous expeditions. How might this influence the lands south of the Sahara? Might they jumpstart the trans-Saharan trade network that the Arabs eventually established? Or might their...
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How could Carthage of won The 2nd Punic War?
Hi, I'm thinking of writing a TL were Carthage wins the 2nd Punic wars. I'm struggling to think of a POD. Maybe if the Carthage Elders helped Hannibal more? Crossing the Alps easier? Any Idea's helpful?
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The Triumph of the New City (A Victorious Carthage TL)
The Triumph of the New City: A Victorious Carthage TL PoD/Stage Setting: Prologue: The Second Sicilian War It has been seventy long years since Himera shattered Carthaginian hopes for Sicilian hegemony. With the fall of the alliance, contemporary to that had bound the cities of the Greeks...
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Jabrut: Qart-Hadast (Power: Carthage)
This is a TL focused on Carthage. The POD is that the first Punic War is won by the Carthaginians, due to Rome's failure to develop the corvus. Although this, like all my timelines, will have a geopolitical/military focus, I will try to include culture and social aspects in this timeline. This...
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A Carthage-based Western civilisation?
If Hannibal had destroyed Rome in the third Punic War, would Carthage have been capable of matching Rome's role and legacy in Western Eurasia? Needless to say predicting the details of such a civilization would be rather ridiculous, but hypothesizing generalizations is less so. I doubt it's...
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