In the 3rd century bc, Massilia city-state was in a slow decline. It once was the major trade power in the western Mediterranean and had trade connection all the way to the Baltic Sea and had trade connection deep into Gaul all the way to Britain at one point. However much had changed since the middle of the 4th century Carthaginians had pushed them out of Iberia in a naval battle of the coast of Iberia. All other trade out had been considerably decreased, their only profitable trade route was into Gaul which slaves and other Gaulish products were sent to the burgeoning Roman republic. Roman goods that went north this was the only thing keeping the city profitable. However, a series of action in faraway Greece and in Massilia would turn this small city-state into a kingdom that would forever change history