Carthago Invicta

Question:

Should Christianity and/or Islam be butterflied out? I have plans for both of them, but I wasn't sure if they should exist ITTL. Thanks.
 
Question:

Should Christianity and/or Islam be butterflied out? I have plans for both of them, but I wasn't sure if they should exist ITTL. Thanks.

Its up to you, although I reckon that Christianity would not have developed securely without the relative stability of Roman rule in the first couple of centuries. But with Roman advancement held in check, you also have an opportunity to create entirely unique religions to your TL.
 
I'll take the advice both here and at cf.net and not have Christianity and Islam - my plan for Christianity was to make it spread into Egypt and make them in uber-religious nation constantly bickering with everyone, and for Islam was to have it spread into Axum, and have it spread all though East Africa.

I had one planned Alternate western religion emerging ITTL, and my plan was for it to be made by some Macedonian philosopher, who'll combine a lot of other ideas by previous philosophers - mainly a mix of Plato, Aristotle, and Stoicism - that ends up being like a China-like situation, if you know what I mean. There might be others - say spinoffs of Zoroastrianism and other philosophical ideas - perhaps like a mercantile religious/philosophical thing emerging in Carthage, or maybe a different spinoff of Judaism emerging.

Anyways, thanks for the comments, although this thread won't be used for my TL anymore. I should have it completely edited, rewritten, more detailed, and have a VERY long update on a Third Punic War in what I call Carthago Invicta v. 1.25 by Saturday or so.
 
Chapter 24
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Cavalry flanked both sides. Both sides shouted and clanged their weapons and shields, and this likely made a very loud beginning to the battle. Everyone shut up after a great African Bull elephant blasted away, and the battle itself began.
Oops! Male elephants aren't/can't be tamed, it's only female elephants used, AFAIK.
 
I'm liking the idea of a more powerful Carthage that doesn't wipe out Rome.

Also, I like what the Macedonians and Seleucids are up to.
 
Oops! Male elephants aren't/can't be tamed, it's only female elephants used, AFAIK.

Are you sure about that? I hadn't checked before writing that, but according to a quick wikipedia search, male elephants were used for war, and females for logistics, because females tend to bolt from male war elephants. Now granted, it being wikipedia, it could be wrong, and I'll take almost any source you have that says otherwise over Wikipedia, but it seems to me that that's probably right.

I'm liking the idea of a more powerful Carthage that doesn't wipe out Rome.

Also, I like what the Macedonians and Seleucids are up to.

Thanks

I feel awful that I haven't finished the next part yet, but since football and school started my mind has been focused on that rather than a month of Carthago Invicta dominating my time. Hopefully I get back to working on it soon - you all seem to like it, having been bumped a couple times after a month long hiatus. I will continue it, but, worse case scenario is that I get back to working on it a lot around January, once college football ends. (I'm a big Michigan Wolverines fan) Best case is sometime over the next two weeks. Anyways, glad people like it, and hopefully the new version (whenever I finish it) will fix my mistakes and make an overall better piece.
 
These sources say that it is bull elephants who are used in warfare.
Yowza!!!

OK, apparently I was wrong. I have read enough about how uncontrollable males are in captivity (most especially during musth), so I figured war elephants had to be female just like all the other useful ones were.

The mind boggles. (Mind you, that's one of the advantages of this site. The mind needs a good boggling occasionally.)
 
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