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Let's say that when Brennus defeats the Romans at the Battle of Allia River and then goes on to sack Rome in the 4th century BC, the city is burnt entirely to the ground with all its people dead and the city never recovers. Without Rome going on to conquer the entire Italian peninsula and then the entire Mediterranean, how powerful could the City of Carthage become without having a major rival in the Western Mediterranean Sea? Could Carthage go on to conquer the Italian peninsula? Could it expand into the Eastern Mediterranean?
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