masteroftheveiledthreat
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What if Hannibal wins Zama and few Roman soldiers get away alive?
What does he ask for from Rome and what does he get?
What does he ask for from Rome and what does he get?
Rome sends another army and Hannibal loses.
But whether Rome sends another army or not has implications. Scipio Africanus was criticized for not razing Carthage to the ground OTL. If Carthage is destroyed ~200 BCE in the Second Punic War, that obviously butterflies away the Third Punic War in 149 BCE. Scipio Africanus (if he survives) will have a very different later career as will those who would have been involved in the Third Punic War.Nothing, because he's in no room to make Rome do anything by Zama. Even if the Romans don't launch another invasion, Carthage has lost by this point.
Then the famous dinner party argument between Hannibal and Scipio goes a bit differently.
Carthage gets peace on slightly better terms than before. And by that I mean they might be allowed to actually keep some small army. The Fabians would have the power in the Senate with Scipio's loss, so I'm skeptical another army would be sent. But the war is already lost for Carthage at this point.
Why isn't it butterflied away?
Nothing, because he's in no room to make Rome do anything by Zama. Even if the Romans don't launch another invasion, Carthage has lost by this point.
Why isn't it butterflied away?
This. By the time of the Battle of Zama, the Romans were basically unstoppable.