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Saw this get released today and it got me thinking, if Rome did get annihilated by the Gauls or puppeted by the Etruscans as AHH suggests what do you guys think happens to the Gauls, Greeks, Germans, Britons, etc? Obviously Kody will go into it next ep but thats a while away most likely and im curious what the various educated and well read people here think.

My assumption is that Carthage most likely builds an empire in the western Med, through various leaders and militarists conquers much of spain, most likely conquers or subjugates Egypt as a client state and probably intervenes in Greece at some level. Southern Gaul is probably brought into the fold as a client state of some sort, maybe even retaining their somewhat Greek culture, while the north continues as it is with various tribes etc that eventually would inevitably get united by some great conqueror. The Huns probably annihilate much of northern Europe, likely far worse than in OTL due to the lack of a Roman Empire to stop them at Chalons, the Germanic tribes probably go the same way they do in OTL and probably conquer much of Spain and Italy before settling there. Carthage probably therefore just sits in north Africa and on it's various islands for the rest of time as a result, maybe imploding in civil wars etc.

Britain probably remains isolated and of course is eventually invaded by Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Vikings etc. Funnily enough 'Britain' as a concept may remain as a more united state if the various invaders are repelled though as the culture is shared across the island rather than Irish and Scottish cultures developing from the remaining celts. Religion wise i guess much like the Roman gods of the time you just have Carthage export their faith and more importantly form of Government across western Europe leading to people copying them, but maybe they follow a more roman approach of pushing their gods upon people.

If we take the arrival of both Christ and Muhammed as given events then perhaps this actually eventually ends up leading to the conversion of a major state like Carthage or perhaps Greece if it emerges from Carthage either as an independent state and former vassal or just having been left alone by Carthage. The Umayyad conquests would be interesting as they'd challenge Carthage's hold on North Africa, which may even pivot them northwards leading to an Islamic Greece perhaps rather than North Africa?

Obviously a TL on this would be horrible to make, but im curious if anyone's ever tried to make at least some kind of educated guess over where Europe and Carthage + Greece go!
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