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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 967918" data-attributes="member: 6533">So far, noone has mentioned the extremely strong position this puts the Hellenistic powers of the east.No Roman conquest in the east, a balancing Carthaginian empire in the west, and a lack of strong native religions means that the successor states have no real challengers.  I would presume that neo-Platonism, Zoroastrianism, and Manicheasm become the dominant religious and philosophical institutions of the known world outside of India and China.  All of these stress intellectualism but without the curiousity and preservative qualities of the Big Three.A lack of real civilizing empire in the west means that the constant barbarian kicking around and chaos that characterized pre-Roman conquest continues.   Gaul would have to remain a neutral ground between Carthage and Rome.  One subject to their plots and subseversive domination.Language is going to be interesting.  The west would be characterized by Semetic Carthaginian pigin toungues and the remains of Gaellic.  The East by straight up Greek and Farsi.  The Central Regions by Latin, German, and Greek.Every few years your going to have a new tribe come in from off the steps as the Hsiung-Nu and Chinese duke it out over in the East.  The Romans would probably work to stabilize the Alps in order to counter this and make their Empire more centered around their holdings in the central med. islands and around the Adriatic.  Venice and Ravenna would become increasingly important.  Constantinople would probably be in Yugoslavia.Magic, who the heck knows?  Probably reinforces the slave holding cultures of the mediterranean.  Rome becomes entirely dominated by the Patricians.  The Greeks enjoy stronger naval power.  Terrorism is an incredible danger for every side.  The civilized lands become very reliant on training and taming wizards for use against the barbarians.  If it has any nature qualities and the now magically reinforced aristicracies care it might be used to prevent the horrifyingly crippling deforestation of the mediterranean.The vikings would be Carthage's main issue.The Black sea would develop a hybrid Greek/nomadic refugee culture centered in the Crimea.Egypt would be the new Rome.</blockquote>

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