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I've come back to researching ancient history again- While the butterflies can be huge I try to limit butterflies anyway. I've also tinkered with a map...
As far as I remember, I don't see any successful complete Carthage timelines. Part of the reason is that we know little about it's culture... We can fix that by Hellenizing it or by ignoring it's culture aspects, or both.
I've been looking at Phyrrus and Epirus, who sabotaged Carthagian power in Sicily, and lost to the Romans. Perhaps a more successfull Epirus who doesn't adventure in Sicily as much stop the Roman tide and give Carthage an edge which it will use to survive? Now, Rome and Europe would be presented with two, no three (if counting Epirus as a power, which may happen) squabbling powers in the Meditterenian. Because of these threats, I do not think the Romans would have expanded as much their empire.
Perhaps Carthage could also be a more enlightened republic like Rome/Greece in a while, and the two could spread the idea farther than OTL, when it was lost to the Dark Ages.
As for the Dark Ages, I think they would still happen, as the invasion of tribes would face, if not a corrupted empire, then three or whatever squabbling powers, which they would attack and annoy seriously.
Thoughts? I'll probably take 5500 years as a guide, because such vast changes would be impossible to work with in the etremely realistic detailed timelines.
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