Hellenistic Empire TL

278 B.C. After their great victory over the Romans, the Illyrians are now a rising power in the east, which causes much fear in many Germanic tribes, and especially in the Illyrians neighbors to the east, the Ostrogoths. Even though, when the two kingdoms formed, they signed a peace treaty, due to the Illyrians aggresive tactics, the Ostrogoths decide to take charge. They attack with force, but almost as soon as they had gotten a 2 miles from the river, they were harassed by peltasts, and soon began losing ground. Eventually, they were pushed all the way back to the Danube, where Lysimachus, who just returned from Italy, delt a horific defeat on the Goths. In fact, when Alexander, as ussual, sent Ptolemy to negotiate peace, he said that 'it did not look like a battleground, but a slaughterfeild.' However, instead of negotiating, Ptolemy went back to Greece, where, spurred by the angry cries of the citizens, he declared the province of Greece to be seperate of the Hellenistic Empire, and dared Alexander to 'face the man he had ordered like a dog on the feild of battle, and see if he had Alexander the Greats blood in him or not!' Of course, fearing that the other provinces would revolt, he did face him, and the War of Greece began. Alexander, thinking correctly that Ptolemy would try to force him into Thermopylae, moved along the western coast, and swiftly began moving towards Athens. However, although he had though Alexander would move through Themopylae, he moved just as swiftly along the east coast, and met in what would be the 2nd Battle of Marathon. The 2 phalanxes engaged for more than 4 hours, and after 7 sorties, Alexander had been stabed in his thigh twice and once in his lower back. However, these whould be miniscule about what he was about to lose. Ptolemy, although he had made just as many sorties against the Hellenese infantry, and suffered only a stab in his sheild hand, had been searching the battlefeild for Alexander, and, in the heat of a charge, saw him also charging toward the flanks of the Greek hoplites, and if he hit them, the battle would swing toward the Hellenese. Ptolemy led the charge to Alexander, and at one point even pulled ahead of his bodyguard. Alexander, seeing a chance to take out his enemy, wheeled about, and the flankmen of both armys stopped fighting to watch the fight. Just as they were about to hit, time seemed to slow down, and Ptolemy found himself lined up with Alexander. He had lost his lance earlier in the fight, and pulled back his sabre, aiming not for his head but his heart. Alexander lunged with his lance, but Ptolemy nocked it aside, and swung with all his might down on Alexanders arm, cleanly slashing through just above his elbow. Alexander, to much in shock to do anything, rode as fast as he could toward his army, screaming 'Back! Back, you dogs! They are led by Hades himself!'
A week after the battle, with his arm healing very nicely, Alexander and Ptolemy met in Thesalonika, and agreed that Greece would remain independant, and that neither country could knowingly attack the other, and, if they did not wish to declare war, they would remain neutral if the other country was at war.
The Carthaginians, meanwhile, were pushing even further into the Mayan Empire, and soon locked them into New Iberia (OTL Yucitan Peninsula). Also, they set up more colonies on Greater New Carthage (OTL N. America), and began to breed elephants, of which several escaped. They also finnaly connected their colonies in West Africa.

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