The Three Europes (Whims of Fortune)


 * The Peoples of the West
 * A brief treatment of Italy, Africa, Sicily and Spain and their various inhabitants prior to the rise of the Tyrrhenian, Phoenician and Greek colonies.


 * A New Power Arises
 * The story of Rome as it slowly eclipses other Italian nations, from its legendary founding to the treaty with Carthage in (OTL) 306 BCE


 * Lords of the Western Sea
 * Carthage - from its founding to its recognition of Rome as the successor of the former Tyrrhenian dominons.


 * The Conquering People
 * Rome, Carthage, Gauls and Greeks - the struggle for the Western Mediterranean until the First Italian War.


 * The Clash of the Titans
 * Rome and Carthage go into their first major war, which leaves Rome stronger than ever before in the end, and Carthage re-thinking its strategy for the future.


 * A Future Denied
 * The Second Punic War, where fortune and genius come together in the shape of Hannibal Barca and his brothers. Rome's dominion is crushed and its role in the future is reduced to no more than a major city in Italy.


 * The Kingdom of the Barcas
 * A new threat to Carthaginian Dominion arises - the kingdom of the Barcas in Iberia. The loss of its greatest material base leaves the City unable to hold onto Italy and lead to the rise of Capua as the centre of the new Italian state.


 * The Western Shores and the Northern Valleys
 * The story of how Italians and Carthaginians colonised and conquered Western Europe, putting in place the divisions one can still see. Return of the Barcid Kingdom to the fold of the State.


 * Age of Emperors
 * How Great Men overcame the Republic - not once, but twice. Both Italy and Carthage become dynastic Empires, abandoning their democratic and republican elements of government, joining Macedon and Egypt as the great states of their time.


 * Decline and Fall
 * The long process by which the Western powers declined and succumbed to their subjects and their neighbours - and it had nothing to do with decadence.

Huns, Goths, Vandals, Slavs, Sarmatians, Alans, Avars, Franks and Saxons push into the West, setting up a patchwork of kingdoms, dukedoms and principalities, and enthusiatically taking up the vestiges of the cultures they destroyed as proof of their own sophistication.
 * The Age of Migrations

After a tumultuous couple of centuries, new superpowers rise in place of the Old, and mark the start of a new Era.
 * Rise of the New Empires