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First we shall look at how exactly to neuter Rome. For this scenario, I will go with a Punic victory in the 2nd Punic War. What is the best way to have Carthage win in a way that neuters Rome, limiting them to the Italian Peninsula indefinitely? What does a post-defeat Rome look like? How might...

Alexander the Great died on June 10, 323 BC, leaving behind an empire that stretched from Macedon and the rest of Greece in Europe to the Indus valley in South Asia. The empire had no clear successor, with the Argead family, at this point, consisting of Alexander's mentally disabled...

Demetrius looked out towards the Rhodian Harbor his attempts to take the Rhodian harbor had so far failed the Rhodians had failed he wasn't sure what move to make next he might need to focus more on the land attacks and create a siege engine similar to the one at Salamis one year ago a then a...

What if Alexander had been the longest verified living man, passing in 240 BC at the young age of 116? With an extra 80 years, could his empire survive as long as him? Could he continue his conquests, and if so how far could he push Macedon's borders? The oldest continuously serving...

Hello world... In OTL, Philip V of Macedon made an alliance with Carthage during the Second Punic War. This alliance only stayed on paper but, nevertheless, the Romans sent forces across the Adriatic to keep Philip busy while they were fighting Hannibal. This was the beginning a series of wars...

what if alexander has an adult son with Cleopatra euridyce daughter of general Attalus in 344 after he was married to her in 344 by his father who as a reward for his taming bucephalis and took him and her with him in campaigns along with him to teach his knowledge and experiece to his son to...

The move that secured the Macedonian victory at Gaugamela - a massive charge straight into the Persian center, where Darius III was - was an immensely risky gamble for Alexander. Case in point, his manouver created a gap in his army's line, one which was exploited by a detachment of Persian and...

Suppose that Alexander fails to reach India, either because the Achaemenids defeat him in one of the decisive battles that led to the conquest of their empire, or because the gets the illness that killed him IOTL before he can lead his army beyond the Hindu Kush. How would Indian history...

IOTL, Konstantinos VII Macedon and Helena Lekapena had a son, Leo, who died young, and then Romanos II and his many sisters, among them Theophano who wed Ioannes Kourkouas Tzimiskes when he was co-emperor with Basil II and Konstantinos VIII, Romanos’s sons. What if his three sisters who in OTL...

So, as it says on the tin, what if Alexander loses the Siege of Tyre. Let's say the cyprians don't help him out and then in a battle the defenders are able to beat the Macedonian navy, and then they offer a truce with Alexander, which he eventually accepts. Now, Tyre wasn't just a city, it was a...

If Persian under Xerxes conquer Greece can Philip II and Alexander the Great still rise as rebel satraps, unite Greece and conquer Persia by Creating phalanx as Achaemenid macedonia had autonomy create armies and wage wars will they be more successful without disunity among Greece under...

IOTL, Romanos I Lekapenos made his eldest and favorite son, Christopher, co-emperors with himself and his son in lawKonstantinos Macedon. However, before anything substantial came about from his elevation to co-emperor, Christopher passed away before Romanos, eventually paving the way for his...

Let's say that after the Battle of Cannae, Philip V, the Antigonid King of Macedon, realizes that there is a fundamental opportunity in Italy he could easily utilize. Instead of focusing on his border states, or on petty battles, decides to fully commit to an alliance with Carthage or Hannibal...

Argaeus was a pretender to the Macedonian throne following the chaos of the death of Perdiccas III and the accession of Amyntas IV, who was soon expropriated by his uncle Philip II. While Macedon was never known for it's smooth succession, what if Argaeus, as a result of Philip II falling off...

In late 321 BC, Perdiccas had attempted to invade Egypt to bring Ptolemy to heel, and also to bring back the body of Alexander which had been so blatantly hijacked. His invasion was a disaster, costing thousands of lives, and Perdiccas was murdered by a conspiracy consisting of Peithon...

An idea that came to me recently is that, taking advantage of this snippet from wikipedia: Other historians (e.g., Justin 9.7) suggested that Alexander and/or his mother Olympias were at least privy to the intrigue, if not themselves instigators. Olympias seems to have been anything but discreet...

After the death of Seleucus I "Nikator", what if the subsequent Seleucid kings gave up on fighting the other Diadochi and instead focused on Alexander's earlier dream of a Greco-Persian state, focusing entirely on the eastern portions of their massive empire? This would include: -Trying to...

Greetings all, for this thread I'll be asking about the enormous effects of a nonhellenized Judaism. To make things easy the POD is simply no Alexandrian conquests of the Persian empire. Any later or alternative Greek conquests are nowhere near as lucky, and just make it across Anatolia. That...

In OTL Demetrius Poliorcetes, after routing the Seleucid left wing under the command of Antiochus, got caught up in the pursuit of the routing troops. Seleucus then deployed his elephants to block Demetrius from returning, and Antigonus was outflanked and killed. Demetrius managed to escape...

In 358 BC, Philip II of Macedon embarked on a campaign against Bardylis, the king of the Dardanians, to recover areas of Upper Macedonia. In OTL, the battle of Erigon Valley neutralized the immediate Dardanian threat and gave Philip II much needed breathing room to concentrate on other threats...