roman republic

So the Cimbrian War panicked the Romans quite a bit. Some time before 113 BC a group of German tribes including the eponymous Cimbri migrated out of their homeland in Denmark and northern Germany, beginning a trek down to the Danube area. Panicked Roman allies in the area sent to Rome for help...

Rome defeated the Selecuid Empire at Magnesia. This defeat forced them to abandon Anatolia and pay crippling reparations to Rome. Later the Seleucid Empire succumbed to civil wars. The Parthians took advantage of this to take over most of their territory. But what if Rome went further and took...

Hello all. I've been fascinated with the late Roman Republic lately. It's just such a cool era. Accordingly, I've been thinking about a surviving Roman Republic and its effects on history. After reading some posts on this thread, which argue that the Roman Republic was not doomed to collapse...

Roman Republic was a direct democracy. Legislation could only be voted by the general public. The votes could only be cast in Rome's pomerium. This caused a concentration of power in to those rich enough to travel to Rome to vote. This led to the fall of the Republic What if Rome people in...

(Disclaimer: there's an overall difference in this alternate Social War, not just contrasting military fortune. The Romans historically proved themselves extremely firm in war, not giving in to enemy goals. This particular conflict isn't going to be an exception, that's why they're going to...

I found a problem with Julius Caesar's date of birth. According to Wikipedia he was born in 100 BC, and was consul for the first time in 59 BC. However the minimum age to be a consul was 42, so how could he become a consul when he was only 41. Something's rotten in Denmark. You had to be 42 to...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeian%E2%80%93Parthian_invasion_of_40_BC As the ailing Roman Republic convulsed in a series of civil wars that would eventually lead to its dissolution, the Parthian Empire, backed by a rebellious Roman general named Quintus Labienus, invaded Syria and occupied...

Chapter I: Lions Fed by Sheep Narnia, Italia In the hills of rustic Umbria, the former hearth of the Sabines, there was a small town known as Narnia. And on the outskirts of this town lived two brothers: Titus and Tiberius. Prior to this point, they had lived mostly uneventful lives, both...

In all of history, there has only ever been one succesful slave rebellion, in Haiti. What would the effects of a succesful slave rebellino 2000 years earlier be? Could the slaves have ever succesfully kicked the Romans out of Sicily? If they had, what would happen? What sort of society would...

48 BC - Year 706 Ab urbe condita A young woman, believed to have been carried by two servants, was smuggled inside a palace covered by the same carpets that decorated her royal chamber She's anxious, yes her brother defied the general Yes her brother murdered the roman But that doesnt make her...

What if instead fighting each other Caesar and Pompey set aside their differences and invade Parthia in order to avenge their friend Crassus ? They 15 legions they used against each other in their OTL civil war. what will be the result ?

if Gauls destroy Rome from existence in 390 BCE would Seleucid civil wars still happen lead to their conquest by parthians?

Regnum Romanum By Fredrick II Book I From the fall of Tarquinius until the Gallish sack In 244 AUC (510 BC), Roman King Lucius Tarquinius Superbus went to war with the Rutuli, a very wealthy nation, whose riches Tarquinius was keen to obtain. However, the king failed to capture the...

It's the late 1300s and the war of the eight saints have just kicked off. Italian city states ( mostly the Republics ) vs the French Pope . What if , somehow, seeing the current pope as nothing but an illegitimate pupet the population of the city of Rome itself revolt . Seeing this as a chance...

Hello! This is my first post here ! I am German, english wasn't my native language , so please forgive me if I make any mistakes! The U.S was founded on HEAVY Roman and Greek influence. During its foundation, the age and power of monarchy was still strong if not universal. Conditions were...

For three centuries, Carthage's nemesis was the Greek colony of Syracuse. The two states vied for dominance in Sicily, with several major battles and sieges being fought, but in the end neither side managed to dominate the island completely, the stalemate between them lasting until the rise of...

Let's say the carthaginians never colonise Iberia Or they do but get their asses beaten by local celts Or they do sucessfully and New Carthage survives the punic wars by making a peace treaty with Rome Maybe it's an ally, client state or they have cold-but-not-hostile relationship, it doesnt...

Had Caesar been warned of the plot, resulting of course in his survival, what would have happened with Cleopatra and Caesarion? Also i assume him finding out about the plot would obviously temporarily delay his attack on Dacia and Parthia Also now i have strayed from the purpose of the thread...

Building on my previous thread, after Kos was taken, Mithridates besieged Rhodes, seeing fit to reduce this staunch Roman ally and premier naval power, after receiving the surrender of Mytilene as well. Mithridates attempted to envelop the Rhodian fleet, but the endeavor failed. The Rhodians...

As it says in the title. What would be the fate of Egypt, the Ptolemaic dynasty, Rome, and the rest of history had the last pharaoh been born as a boy? Let's call him Cleopatros, and say that his personality is mostly the same as his IOTL counterpart. Let's also say that he might get into a feud...