Map: the Carthago-Roman dispute with Persian Empire

[chunkeymonkey13q]

Rome could have still evolved, it just would have been forced to either develop its own culture or else "borrow" from someone else.

 

[Leo Caesius]

well, my reasoning was that, between the efforts of the Athenians and the Cypriots(sp), Persia now has a fairly good open-water fleet (note that they control Knossos, and possibly dominate trade with Egypt)...which makes them a threat to Carthage.

btw, I never said the Punii mothercities are loyal...only that they're part of Persia.


OTL Carthage also had a treaty with Rome as well.

An interesting thing about Carthage and Rome; they were actually quite similar in many ways. They both had Republican forms of government (that the Romans modeled upon that of the Carthaginians, if I'm not mistaken), they both had a very productive (but often adversarial) relationship with the Greeks, same for the Tyrrhenians, and so on.

 

[Wendell]

The Ptolemaic line having Judea among their holdings longer could be interesting...