city states

When the Modern Nation of Greece formed in the 19th Century, they created a unitary state, with a monarch and later a president to lead it. Instead of the Ancient Past with Spartans, Athenians, Corinthians, Thebans, the Greeks sees themselves as Greeks. Challenge: With a POD from the Late...

The Second Lombard League was originally dissolved on 1250 when Frederick II Hohenstaufen died and the italian city-states saw no reason to continue it as they considered that the imperial threat was gone. But let's just imagine Konrad IV, Frederick's son, somehow survived and continued to try...

Your challenge is to have an analogue to OTL's Maritime Powers, but in antiquity! In this case, eight city-states recognized by excelence in commercial-naval activity, they have to span all the mediterranean (at least two for each region of the mediterranean, separate in Eastern/Central/Western)...