A Split Mediterranean

Points of Divergence
This timeline has two PoD.

Pictish unification
In the year 163 a pictish king called breth bolgh succesfully united pictland.

The goths are more succesfull in anatolia
in 258, when in OTL the goths invaded and failed with invading anatolia, the romans have a hard time defeating them. when the galic and palmyrna empires apear, the romans focus on the gllic and the goths take the balkans.

Events
Pictish Unification under some king in 163

Roman invasion in 166 when Parthia is defeated

Pictish success in defence and small expansion

Roman emperors start dying, Picts left alone for some time and prepare

Earlier invasion of Scotland: 206

pictland and rome sign peace 210

230 in roman Persian war Pictland invades parts of Hibernia

In 253 when a plague was in rome Pictland expands into modern day southern Norway

258 the goths create a kingdom in asia minor

260 the galic empire is established. Pictland expands into Iceland

The goths counquer the Balkans 265

Zenobia takes Egypt 269

270-271 the sasanids and romans kill the palmyra empire, the alans create a kindom

276 the chersuci enter the roman empire. they fail but stay in northern italy due to chauci and semones taking theire homeland. rome expands a bit into the alps and creates a pupet state.the semones move east of fear of the romans, pushing some tribes, one failing to attack the goths

309 the sasanid empire counquers gupta empire and western satraps

311 a general creates an empire in africa leaving only italy and egyptto previous rome

323 a new state unites in the western caspian sea

327 the rising christian population makes persecution, forcing christins to flee

328 rebels rebel against the failing goths, splitting the gothic empire in pieces. pictland finds greenland

329 the northern roman empire invades illyria, a roman general declares himself pharoe ptolemaius style and kicks rome from egypt

341 macedonia, epirus, achia, thrace, crete, aegea, thrace and gothia create the haemusian allience, to protect against further roman occupation

342 the sasanids invade capadokia. galatia, bytnia, pontus and cilicia join the war and take parts of the remains

343 galatia, bytnia, pontus, cyprus and cilicia create the asian leaue, to deal with the sasanids.

351 egypt invades the meroe

354 the franks are destroyed by the gallic empire after a failed invasion

362 the sasanids invade the asian league, egypt attacks the sasanids. bytnia is forced to annex whats left of pontus

363 the sasanids, asian league and egypt sign a white peace as all are in a huge danger.

365 egypt takes all of sinai for strategic deapth.