No frills with this one.
What if, by conquest or marriage, the Egyptian Ptolemaic Dynasty was able to secure the Carthaginian throne prior to the first Punic War?
Could such a united kingdom dominate the Mediterranean over an upsurgent Roman Republic or would it be doomed (or not plausible) from the start?
What if, by conquest or marriage, the Egyptian Ptolemaic Dynasty was able to secure the Carthaginian throne prior to the first Punic War?
Could such a united kingdom dominate the Mediterranean over an upsurgent Roman Republic or would it be doomed (or not plausible) from the start?