WI: Ceasar conquers East

What would happen if Ceasar hadn't inherited the Transalpine Proconsulship in 59bc, and instead of focusing on conquering Gaul, focus on conquering Dacia, aiming at linking up with Macedonia and Bithynia (which he had a certain relationship with since it was though him that Rome inherited it) and making Danube the main border to the slavic barbarians?
 

tuareg109

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The area you're talking about is called Moesia, though to ensure its security he'd have to build forts all along the Danube, or indeed make forays into Pannonia and Dacia to subdue the tribes there--tribes that weren't Slavic. Slavs didn't live in Europe until the AD 500s.

In any case, I don't know about the wealth of the Balkan tribes. Being apparently more ferocious than the Celtic tribes in Gaul, perhaps they had less riches available for plunder. Then again, being ferocious they would have raided and taken more.

If Caesar doesn't take Gaul, I'm sure that the man after him (still Augustus) would take it out of necessity, for border security (the Rhine is a lot better border than some random line in the high hills of the Massif Central; just as Augustus took Moesia OTL out of necessity, for border security, the Rhine being a better border than the valley-filled Dinaric Alps and Balkan Mountains.

That would be a fight to watch. Burebista vs Caesar... Caesars going to have a really tough time.

Holy carp, reading Burebista's wikipedia page, I see that the end of their lives read like the same book.
 
Holy carp, reading Burebista's wikipedia page, I see that the end of their lives read like the same book.

Same book, same time, Neighbouring (well ... basicly) despots

That could be a very interesting fight between those two characters
 
Holy carp, reading Burebista's wikipedia page, I see that the end of their lives read like the same book.

holy-carp-final.jpg


On a more serious note, I believe the Dacians united around Burebista specifically because of the threat of Rome, specifically Caesar. When Caesar died, there was no need for Burebista because his threat was gone with him.
 
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