Rough start
Asssyria conquers/destroys Phoenicia (12-10th Century BCE) Phoenicians are killed/enslaved/flee to their colonies, or are relocated to Bactria/Southern Mesopotamia/etc.
Greeks found a colony at the site of OTL Carthage in early 8th Century BCE.
Greeks take over/out-compete the Phoenician colonies (8th-6th Century BCE).
Etruria expands to the north 750-600 BCE
Latium becomes Hellenized 700 BCE
Etruria becomes Hellenized 600 BCE
The Black Sea, western, central and north eastern Med are Greek by mid 6th Century BCE.
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