Ultimate Paragon
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This challenge is to create a plausible scenario where Rome is destroyed in the middle of its rise. The POD must be before the Punic Wars.
This challenge is to create a plausible scenario where Rome is destroyed in the middle of its rise. The POD must be before the Punic Wars.
Oh, I could see criticism of that TL.Easy. The sack of Rome by Brennus and the senones in 399 succeeds completely. Rome is destroyed, leading Romans evacuate to veii...and 2400 years later a timeline called the weighted scales is created, on what if the Romans survived the sack.
Sigged......Oh, I could see criticism of that TL.
"There's no way all that could come from one ass-backwards city! Forget AH Wank, this is AH Bukkake!"
Oh, I could see criticism of that TL.
"There's no way all that could come from one ass-backwards city! Forget AH Wank, this is AH Bukkake!"
You should take any specific events during the Kingdom era with a grain of salt. Anyway, since it was likely based on some real event, it could definitely work. Any pre-sack POD, since Rome didn't have the Servian Walls until post sack, can succeed in destroying Rome without much trouble.What if the Tarquinian conspiracy succeeds? With opponents banished or killed, the republic either disappears or is delayed for long enough to let other powers entrench themselves in the area.
So I assume Australians will conquer the world, then?The Romans were politically versatile, stemming from their famously proud and unruly nature. They were, after all, probably the descendants of thieves, pirates, vagrants, and other criminals whom the rest of the world didn't want. These types of people settling a city are bound to do something interesting.
So I assume Australians will conquer the world, then?
Slydessertfox, what do you think made Rome different from all other Italian cities around that same time? It does seem a bit ASB that Rome would rise and expand in the way that it did, but from what little I know of history all apparent ASBs are the result of insufficient knowledge on my part.