Hannibal's conquest of Rome

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Yea I would rather have the Seleucids move to Seleucia on the Tigris. And, Ptolemy IV is about to die and be succeeded by the young Ptolemy V, so I think the Egyptians won't be able to threaten the Seleucids. Antiochus could conquer Parthia and prevent the Parthian Empire from existing, as well as securing his eastern provinces.
It's not that simple, the Seleucids moved west for good reasons.

The west was Hellenized, easier to control and rich, and would be even more so with Egypt. I don't see them moving east now that they have more reason than ever to stay west.
 
It's not that simple, the Seleucids moved west for good reasons.

The west was Hellenized, easier to control and rich, and would be even more so with Egypt. I don't see them moving east now that they have more reason than ever to stay west.

So you are suggesting they lose Persia to the Parthians?
 

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So you are suggesting they lose Persia to the Parthians?
Or even a native uprising.

But the Seleucids holding on to the part of Asia minor they lost to the Romans, Egypt and Syria and the rest of the Levant would be a very formidable empire, perhaps more so than if they had a loose control over Persia.
 
Or they're just as likely to be played like the fools by Hannibal or his progeny.

Mayhaps Hannibal or his heir makes an alliance with the Ptolemies against the Seleucids.

Why are they "just as likely to be played like fools by Hannibal"? And what could motivate Hannibal to intervene in Seleucid-Ptolemaic conflicts? No matter how good a general he was, Hannibal does not hail from a regional superpower. Apart from eliminating Rome, both he and the Carthaginian Senate would still have their work far ahead of them in their aspirations to restore their people's former prestige in the Mediterranean. Their first goal after Rome would be to re-assert their hegemony over the Punic colonies in Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica. And they would still have potential problems from the Greek colonies on that front. Carthage, or whatever Punic successor state arises under Hannibal's rule, will simply not have the ability to singlehandedly take on and acquire territory from the more economically, territorially, and demograghically powerful Hellenistic empires of the east within the first couple of generations.
 
Okay, so...
Hannibal and Carthaginian senate DIDN'T become involved with the matters in the East, but focus to consolidating what they have...
But it is possible for one of Hannibal's succesor to do that...
Seleucids eventually lose Persia and now only consist of Syria, Judaea, Egypt, and parts of Anatolia...
Right?
 
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