History of the world (Roma Delenda Est)

Roma Eterna?
After Hannibal Barca (also known as Hannibal the Lion, Hannibal the Great, Hannibal the Conqueror, and Hannibal of Roma (but some consider that a degorative term) conquered Roma in 210 BC, the second Phoenician war was over. Carthago had won, and the Imperium Romanum was no imperium anymore, for its caesar and parts of its senate had been killed. Indeed, Romanum crumbled and fragmented into competing city states, and Hannibal urged the Barca family to send more troops to Romanum. While the council and the suffets were against it, they were a minor power, for the Barca family ruled Carthago, and Hannibal finally got reinforcements. Eventually, the Romanum peninsula was occupied by Hannibal and his troops, and others, and slowly the core of the imperium became part of Carthago. The allies of Carthago were rewarded, and those who had joined or helped the imperium were hunted and destroyed. But while the core of the imperium had fallen, various cities had formed alliances and pacts with each other, and the possessions in Hispania were threatened by this. In the Romanum peninsula, there were many troops to keep the peace and thus no one dared to move against Carthago there, indeed, Carthago took over the whole Romanum peninsula with little to no resistance, but in Hispania, only a small amount of troops were located. That is why Hannibal and his new army was sent to Hispania, to conquer the resisting city states. The city states, which had no legion and only a few professional soldiers, were no match for Hannibal and by 209 BC, Carthago was a giant super power. The tribes in Europa didn't invade Carthago's possessions in Hispania or the Romanum peninsula because they were friendly towards Carthago, and some even allied with them and helped them to defeat the imperium. And while Graece eyed all this with a wary eye, there seemed to be no army coming towards them, despite Philip V's urgings and besides the Carthago-Makedonia treaty. Carthago merely resumed trading and doing like it had done before the imperium declared war, but now from the position of an actively expanding super power, and with the help of barbarians should the need arise. And it claimed the rebels weren't yet fully rooted out.

The Carthago-Makedonia Treaty
However, in 208 BC, Carthago gave in and Hannibal and his army were sent to Graece, after king Philip V yet again urged Carthago to send help. Hannibal, who still was in Hispania, took a galley and arrived somewhere in Graece, no records can be found (or, I don't know much about Greece around this period and can't find much too), but we do know that in the same year, the Aechean League, the Hellenicstic League, and Epirus all were conquered by Makedonia with the help of Carthago. Peace had then returned, and Hannibal was sent home, but Makedonia wanted more, and in the next year, 207 BC, invaded Pergamon, Bithynia, and Galatia. It was a resounding success, with only a few casualities and many, many victories. The Ptolemaic Empire eyed this a bit warily, as it had a few oversea possessions, and the Seleucid Empire wasn't happy with the new, large, and united Graece on its borders. And it had reasons to not be happy, because 3 years later, in 204 BC, Graece's armies marched again, to conquer the western tip of the Seleucid Empire. But the Seleucid Empire had a large army on its borders and had seen this coming, they were prepared, and were much larger. But Graece's armies were better, and they conquered the western tip of the Seleucid Empire, yet with heavy casualities, and Graece sued for peace. The Seleucid Empire should really have continued warring, because Graece was exhausted with such rapid expansions and the Seleucid Empire could perhaps have taken the whole eastern part of Graece, but they agreed to a peace treaty instead.



Note that every single map gives different borders and such, so I by no way claim that this map resembles the ancient world. In fact, I think the Seleucid Empire, and the Ptolemaic Empire don't have their correct borders, and I know that Parthia, the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, and the Mauryan Empire don't have their correct borders, but let's just say that's because a different point of divergence.

Senatus Populusque Carthagus
Not everything stayed the same however, Carthago adopted a more Roman government (and no, it wasn't called the SPQC, the Senatus Populusque Carthagus, that's just a fancy title). The wary and fearful politicans making up the council and the suffets had very nearly ruined Hannibal's chance at taking Roma. They had done it so many times before, recall a general, deny him supplies, all in order to keep them from growing too powerful. But now, with the Barca family controlling Carthago, the Barca family demanded that the government was reformed, in a more Roman way. After many days of discussion, it was decided. The Barca family would control the military, planning campaigns and such. As long as a general did his work, and did it well, he wouldn't be recalled and he would be given supplies should he ask for them. But before executing campaigns, the Barca family would ask the council and the suffets if they agreed. If more then 50% agreed, the Barca family could proceed. Important decisions could be voted on by the mere citizen, each city had a single vote, and it had 2 weeks to declare its vote. Each citizen of a city would be able to vote, and depending on what the majority of the citizens voted, the city would cast its vote. Cities (and thus citizens) were only able to vote wether they agreed or disagreed with a proposal of the council and the suffets.

After this drastic reformation, in 206 BC another reformation took place. Now, the suffets were the only beings capable of putting forth proposals, on which the council could vote. The votes of the councils were added to the votes of the cities, and that way it was decided wether Carthago agreed or disagreed with the proposal.

In 204 BC, yet another reformation took place, the council was now able to also put forth proposals, and the suffets were now able to veto any proposal as long as they both agreed with the veto. The Barca family still controlled the whole military, and they could still propose campaigns and things having to do with the military, and their proposals couldn't be vetoed. But the Barca family also couldn't vote on proposals.

The Great Seleucid-Ptolemaic War
In our timeline, the Fifth Syrian War began in 204 BC, with the dead of Ptolemy IV of the Ptolemaic Empire. His heir was the child Ptolemy V, and conflict broke out over who would be the heir. Antiochus III of the Seleucid Empire decided to take advantage of this and invaded Coele-Syria once again, and negotiates an alliance with Philip V. Antiochus III would take Sidon before being stopped by Roman emissaries demanding that he (and Philip V) would not invade Egypt.

In this timeline, there are no Romans, and Antiochus III obviously isn't interested in an alliance with Philip V. He still invades Coele-Syria in 204 BC, and continues to conquer. He faces minor defeats, but major victories, and eventually, in 198 BC, the Ptolemaic Empire has lost all its territories outside of Afrika and negotiates a harsh peace, leaving the Ptolemaic Empire cripled. Cyprus and the small Ptolemaic possessions in Graece were conquered by the opportunistic Philip V. Graece only has a relatively small army left and is overexpanded, but somehow Philip V manages to hold control over Graece. The taking of Cyprus however does increase tensions between Graece and the Seleucid Empire. In 197 BC, Antiochus III once again invades the Ptolemaic Empire, and after a long war with many losses on both sides, the Ptolemaic Empire is conquered by Antiochus III in 182 BC. Thus, the Fifth Syrian War, also known as the Great Seleucid-Ptolemaic War, ends. Nearly immediately, rebels take over and it splits in many small tribes. Inspired by this, various rebellions erupt in the whole Seleucid Empire. It has grown too large, is very corrupt, has only a very small army left, and had minor unquelled rebellions for too long. Graece and Parthia have built up their armies and are ready to take over parts of the Seleucid Empire, but Graece faces a few minor rebellions too and Parthia waits to see how the situation unfolds, so no invasions takes place. In Europa, barbarian tribes begin to fuse with Carthago, or vice versa, which results in the first civilized barbarians, and sets the stage for independence of northern (anything in Europa) Carthago.

Ruins of the Ptolemaic Empire
One has to understand that all these various nations aren't nations, but tribes warring with each other. Quickly, they would be absorbed into larger empires. When the Seleucid armies had conquered the western part of the Ptolemaic Empire and were fighting in the southern parts of it, what is here displayed as Kartagh already claimed it wanted to be part of Carthago. It had only spouted minor rebellions when the Ptolemaic Empire ruled over them, but now they had their chance. They were the first nation to rebel, and shortly after their self declared independence, a small part of Kartagh declared independence from both Kartagh and the Seleucid Empire, for they didn't want to belong to Carthago or the Seleucid Empire, and because they had no army to protect theirselves, they turned towards Graece and called theirselves Makedos in honor of Makedonia. Kartagh didn't refuse, and so the first 2 independent nations were established.

But they were quickly followed by the Chra Ptolemey, claiming that they would form the new Ptolemaic Empire, a tolerant, free, rich, and benevolent empire. They had a large army to back this up, and within a few months, they were the only ones of the rebel states to border the Seleucid Empire. And many wanted the Seleucid Empire destroyed, for life in the Seleucid Empir was far worse than life in the Ptolemaic Empire. It thus was logical that the rebel nations emerging around Chra Ptolemey eventually merged with Chra Ptolemey. The Tjoser-Chisi Union, an union between 2 major rebel leaders resulting in a single nation, decided to join the Chra Ptolemey only a few weeks after it (the Tjoser-Chisi Union) was formed, and the isolationistic, despotic Hedji was also persuaded to join the Chra Ptolemey, and althogh reluctantly, it did join. Horchoi, ruled by the family Horchoi, was, like many other nations, simply a nation created because the people didn't want to be part of the Seleucid Empire and voted for highly valued members of their area to rule them. And the people of Horchai wanted to be part of something with potention, so it joined the Chra Ptolemey after a few other nations had joined it, recognizing their opportunity. Upper Blemmyes, although a bit backwards and highly despotic, had resisted the Seleucid invaders at every possible moment, and gladly joined the Chra Potelemy, although the other nations of the Chra Ptolemey didn't really like Upper Blemmyes.

Elsewhere, to the west, Carthago agreed to annex Kartagh, while Graece agreed to annex Makedos. Kartagh, which had a larger army than the other rebel nations and the support of Carthago, had previously agreed to protect the Kingdom of Bruis (which also had an army, but a smaller one), Marmarica, Cyrenaica, Tyrravias, and Uthocar. However, while Kartagh wanted to be part of Carthago, the rest didn't, and thus Carthago and Kartagh (but mainly Carthago) gave a small part of their army to the Kingdom of Bruis, which had agreed to continue protecting the 3 smaller, unprotected rebel nations. In practice, the Kingdom of Bruis ruled over the other 3 rebel nations, but only a few weeks later were the 3 rebel nations peacefully annexed by the Kingdom of Bruis. Then, the Kingdom of Bruis negotiated peace, and a slightly different border with the Char Ptolemey.

The Despotism of Chipco was a threat to the others, it was aggressive, warlike, had a (relatively) large army (of mercenaries and barbarians), and seemed to have spies and assassins wherever they wanted. Due to the barbaric rule and the many battles their people endured (all internal, like power struggles), only the barbarians and mercenaries stayed, while the normal civilians fled to Issui or Icktus. Thus Chipco declared that Issui and Icktus had stolen their people, and that they should pay dearly for that. Uthocar, and the Kingdom of Bruis, welcomed this news with open arms, for the many troops on their borders moved away, Uthocar was spared. However, the Kingdom of Raisch, small, but with a relatively large army, had decided that in these times, rebel nations should band together and had sent troops to Icktus. If the Chipco invaded Icktus, then the Kingdom of Raisch would invade Chipco. Thus, Chipco invaded Issui, prompting the Kingdom of Raisch to invade Chipco and liberate Issui. The unorganized and wild mercenaries and barbarians couldn't hold a candle to the army of Raisch, and most fled away. And so, the Kingdom of Raisch had annexed 3 nations. Diplomatic channels were set up, borders were slightly redrawn, and peace was made.

The Zabnatru were an isolationistic nation, wary of outsiders, and perhpas a bit barbaric and primitive. The very peaceful Sokr Meroe (ruled by Sokr Meroe) had no army and only civilians with home made weapons, thus they relied on the protection of the Monarchy of Gryz and the Kingdom of Raisch. While most forces were sent in the position of the Zabnatru, the only possible threat, or so the Monarchy of Gryz thought, the quiet and peaceful Depizio Gaganth suddenly sent its forces out to burn, pillage, and do all kinds of other nasty things to Sokr Meroe. Many of these were hired barbarians, and the invasion quickly got out of hand. The Kingdom of Raisch fortified its border, and killed a few wild barbarians too. After the Monarchy of Gryz had defeated the small barbaric army, they moved on towards Depizio Gaganth demanding an explenation for this invasion. The leader of the Depizio Gaganth said that he was forced to do so by the barbaric hordes on their western borders, if they weren't recruited, paid, and sent out to attack something, they would destroy Depizio Gaganth. Obviously, the leader of Depizio Gaganth declined, and thus was killed by a few barbarians, who then lead Depizio Gaganth into war. However, the son of the original leader of Depizio Gaganth was in hiding, and was (and became) the rightful leader of Depizio Gaganth. After a few days, everything was settled, and the Depizio Gaganth would be protected by the Monarchy of Gryz. The Zabnatru slowly grew out of their isolationistic behavior, but wished to remain independent. It built up a small army of its own, and with the Chra Ptolemey, the Kingdom of Raisch, the Monarchy of Gryz, and the Empire of Aksyzrha (which also preferred to stay independent, and had already set up trade with the Arabian tribes, and had a small army consisting of volunteers from these tribes and its own citizens) surrounding it, they had nothing to fear.

It is believed that Fierqus, Vischi, and Fendorg were all lead by friends, and that they didn't do much things before talking about it with the other 2 nations, they even had a shared army. But with the power hungry Despotism of Krahnz, who believed that they were the new Ptolemaic Empire and that all the others should submit to them, on the borders of Vischi, Vischi relied much more on the Union of Cleoptais to protect itself. What was apparant for weeks was set in motion when the despot of Krahnz was killed and replaced by another one, who then commanded his forces to invade Vischi. Luckily, the shared army of the 3 bought enough time to allow the Union of Cleoptais to invade Krahnz, kill the despot, and install another leader. A few days later, the army of the former Despotism of Krahnz fled, in fear of the Union of Cleoptais. After a long talk with the other 2 nations, the Vischi asked the Union of Cleoptais if they couldn't join them. A few days later, so did the other 2 nations.

Peace had returned, and the nations all had an army to defend theirselves (but if Carthago or perhaps Graece wanted, they could have conquered the whole area). Borders were redrawn, embassies were established, and trade was done. The only threat were the barbarians and the Seleucid Empire. The Seleucid Empire however, declared that it wasn't going to invade any of the Ptolemaic nations any time soon. Many could see that the Seleucid Empire wouldn't even exist any time soon, and the succesfull rebellion only helped in the downfall of the Seleucid Empire. But in the northern parts of Carthago, in Europa, the exact opposite was happening. Barbarians became civilized.

The Iberian Union first appeared, the Iberian barbarians who had been living near Carthago there saw the greatness of its cities and the great life its people had, and decided to copy Carthago. And copy Carthago it did. The Carthaginian people were at first a bit wary, but later, they were happily trading with each other, and the Iberians regarded Carthago as their big brother, while Carthago regarded the Iberians as their backwards friends. In Gallia, the same thing happened. But the civilized Gallic people were the laughingstock of the barbarians, and as such, they jokingly called theirselves the Gallios Barbaros. Carthago protected them however, and the barbarians moved away, perhaps disgusted by the Gallios Barbaros. This caused the beginning of civilized Europa. Near the Romanum peninsula, Romans who had fled to various barbarians had settled a small area next to Carthago. Relations were very tense, and Carthago moved some of its soldiers towards Roma Nova, but allowed the Romans to live in peace as long as they did not do anything Carthago didn't like. After the Iberian Union arose, the Hispanion Union arose too, a bit to the north, and it had the occassional war with the Iberian Union and vice versa, and some time after that, the mountain dwellers lead by their king Jayo (they changed the name of their tribe depending on who was their king) settled down near Carthago too.

And as a side note, due to the many rebellions in the Ptolemaic Empire and in the Seleucid Empire, and a few in Carthago (mostly in Romanum and Iberia) and Graece too, Brihadrata wasn't assassinated in 185 BC, probably because the would be assassin was afraid that his nation would collapse too. Thus, the Mauryan Empire continued to exist. And so, in 180 BC, the world (or at least Afrika) looked completely different.

The First Seleucid War
Civili wars were a daily occurance in the Seleucid Empire. There was no government, no law, no army (the (very) small army guarding the Seleucid Empire while the large army was out conquering the Ptolemaic Empire had already been destroyed by the many rebels and criminals), one could only wait before its enemies destroyed the once great empire. Even Parthia, its vassal, had declared its independence (Parthia was a vassal of the Seleucid Empire). These enemies could come from Graece, Chra Ptolemey, or even Parthia, the Mauryan Empire, or the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, but also from within the Seleucid Empire. It eventually was the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom that started the First Seleucid War, that started the invasion of the Seleucid Empire, quickly followed by Parthia. Seeing as the Mauryan Empire still existed, there was no good pretext to conquer it. The Seleucid Empire however, was a lawless place full of crime and death, and the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom and Parthia sought to end this and bring peace. With no army, and only local civilians (quite few, for many were criminals that didn't care what happened to the Seleucid Empire, or civilians that wanted peace and believed the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom or Parthia would bring this) to defend the Seleucid Empire, it was helpless. After the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom and Parthia rolled over the Seleucid Empire and conquered more than half of it in a few months, Graece too invaded the Seleucid Empire. Less than a hundred soldiers of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom died in this giant conquest, because most of the times they were welcomed with open arms. The same holds true for Parthia. Graece had around the same amount of deads, mostly because the people on the border between Graece and the Seleucid Empire were very violent and anti-Graece. But most of them realized after a few days, that life in Graece was way better than life in the Seleucid Empire. Except for those living on the eastern part of the Mare Internum (the Mediterranean Sea), who joined Chra Ptolemey.

The world now looked very strange, seeing as the last remnants of the Seleucid Empire, boxed in between Graece, Greco-Bactria, and Chra Ptolemey, didn't really want to be conquered by Graece, so they opted to voluntary join Chra Ptolemey. Graece and Greco-Bactria (although Greco-Bactria wasn't really planning on conquering those last parts of the Seleucid Empire, and instead, was focusing on holding what they had conquered with their armies of which they had not only 4 times more than they had when they began the war, but their armies were also 4 times as large as they had been) were of course angry about this move, and tensions raised, especially because of the strange borders forming. While the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom had first focused on conquering the parts south of their homeland, once Parthia joined, they tried to box in Parthia, and later tried to beeline to Graece in order to prevent the other nations of acquiring too much land (although they didn't really care about Graece, their true ally and friend). Afterwards, they focused on the southern parts of the Seleucid Empire, allowing Graece to conquer parts of the Seleucid Empire near Chra Ptolemey via naval invasions.

In contrast with the very low rate of casualities during the war, many died after the war. This is because Graece (who had it much easier, for they had conquered only a small portion of the Seleucid Empire), the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom and Parthia wanted to deal with the criminals raging around the former Seleucid Empire. Many rumoured that the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom and Parthia would be destroyed by their overexpansion, but that was not to be. The Greco-Bactrian Kingdom's armies had nearly no casualities, just like Parthia's armies, while the Seleucid Empire's army was nearly destroyed before the Ptolemaic rebels established independent nations and finished it off. And, the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom and Parthia tried to quell a good amount of rebels (of which there weren't that much, mostly only criminals) before moving on to conquer another part of the Seleucid Empire. However, there were still casualities. Luckily for the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, the rebels weren't organized and operated on a very small scale, and after a month or so, both the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom and Parthia were full of peace and happiness.

As can be seen, more and more barbarians are becoming civilized, although less so in Gaul.

Roma Nova is expanding and at the same time shrinking, it has a very small army of a few Chartaginians and former Romans and has taken over small pieces of land (with no violence or battles or anything) and their very small army has protected them from the smaller tribes in the area, while the bigger tribes aren't interested in conquering Roma Nova. Most of the smaller tribes are becoming assimilated into Gallios Barbaros, and so some of them have banded together to defend their territory. Some (although very few) of the bigger tribes have banded together too, and some even have offered to protect the smaller tribes in exchange for things, making them sort of vassals. Due to the increasing number of civilized barbarians, some in barbarian nations like Gallios Barbaros, but also some who have decided to live in Carthago (the nation, not the city), combined with some of the Romans living in Carthago (again, the nation) near the borders of Roma Nova, crime is increasing extraordinary fast, and there are even some rebellions for an independent Roma again. Some of the Romans living deeper in Carthago are demonstrating, but most (including Carthago) think this will pass over.

The Jayo are claiming that the Pyrenees (I couldn't find a Latin name, so I'll just use the English one) are their rightfull territory, and they have raided, plundered, and sacked a few Carthaginian cities there. Carthago has sent out its troops, but the barbarians (everywhere) have thus far won most battles due to the use of superior tactics and strategy, and speed.

There are a few minor border wars between the Iberian Union and the Hispanion Union, but nothing serious.

Speaking about border wars, near the end of the (war with the) Seleucid Empire, the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom sparked a few border incidents, indicated with numbers. The first and second incidents happened only a few days (half a week or something) after each other and are, or so people believe, just accidents that have no relation. Of course, Greco-Bactria claims that the Mauryan Empire attacked them (accidently), while the Mauryan Empire claims the opposite. It is believed that the first incident was initiated by the Mauryan Empire, and the second one by Greco-Bactria. However, this caused Greco-Bactria to guard their borders better, leading to the third incident (believed to be caused by the Mauryan Empire) a week or so after the second one, and a fourth incident (or better, massacre) another week later. Most people agree that the fourth incident was created by Greco-Bactria in order to gain a little more land and create better defendable borders. Around 200 Mauryan people died in the 'incident', but no war was declared. Perhaps the Mauryan Empire was a bit frightened by the large and powerful Greco-Bactrian Empire. It certainly raised tensions though.

Parthia, angry about being denied much land by the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom (and sparking a number of border incidents in response which nearly all lead to the deaths of Parthian people), took over pieces of land with a way too large army (they had nothing else to do), resulting in stunning victories, almost no loses (only 2 people, and that was because of friendly fire, if the records are right) and a boost in morale that did more good for Greco-Bactria than Parthia when the Second Seleucid War broke out.

Chra Ptolemey, now obviously the most powerful nation of the former Ptolemaic Empire, but it was so even before the annexation of a part of the Seleucid Empire, slowly expanded across the sea. It had no trouble with Graece or Greco-Bactria, and tried to remain friendly in order to avoid war, which worked. The Kingdom of Bruis wasn't happy with this development though, saying that they fought the hardest against the Seleucid Armies and killed the most Seleucid soldiers and that they thus deserved a part of the Seleucid Empire. They also had the largest army of any former Ptolemaic nation, so they could deal better with any Seleucid rebels than Chra Ptolemey could. But seeing as they didn't border the Seleucid Empire, they were mostly ignored.

The Second Seleucid War
But peace wasn't to last, the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom suddenly found itself to be one of the mightiest nations of the world. It looked around and saw that Parthia also had acquired new land and thus more power, and it felt threatened. What once had been a naive neighbour now was a competing nation. Parthia had been a vassal of the Seleucid Empire after all, and it was a coward to declare independence instead of supporting their masters in war. Perhaps Parthia had hostile intentions, but decided that the time wasn't yet right? It had also violently conquered territories not belonging to the Seleucid Empire, and was raising more and larger armies, and seeing as it never had standing armies before (which is true, they only had local garrissons in forts and such, but no standing army), so... Of course, the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom was more powerful and had no need to feel threatened at all because Parthia had no hostile intentions and was recruiting troops to guard their newly acquired land (just like the Greco-Bactrian Kindom was doing, but on a much smaller scale), but it was a good casus belli. And so, at the end of the year 178 BC, just after the First Seleucid War, yet another war was waged, the Second Seleucid War. In 176 BC, it ended, with the conquering of nearly the whole of Parthia after a daring but succesfull assault on their capital and core cities, and a long, tiring, and bloody conflict after that. What remained was bound to be little more than a slave nation. The Greco-Bactrian Kingdom laughed, and began looking at new targets.

The Age of War
Some say that the Age of War began when Roma was destroyed, others say it began when the Ptolemaic Empire was destroyed, others say that it began with the First Seleucid War, others say that it began with the Second Seleucid War, other people say that it began with the creation of the Nova Imperium Romanum (the New Roman Empire), other people say...Yeah, there is no confirmed date of the beginning of the Age of War. What is known, is that the Age of War had constant war, stagnation of technology (and even destruction of knowledge, like libraries etcetera), and provided birth to many nations. In this time, most wise men were sure that no large nation could be maintained, look at Greco-Bactria, and before them, Seleucia, which lay in ruins, and Chartago, which was only a third of its former size and power. Some said that power corrupted, but Carthago hadn't initiated any wars after finishing a war started by Romanum, so why was it reduced to a third of its former size? Well, because they needed a larger army (which was also true for the Seleucid Empire and Greco-Bactria), and thus most nations began neglecting anything besides their military.

The Third Seleucid War / The Greco-Maurya War / The Greco-Bactria-Maurya War
While the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom was searching a new enemy, it found the Mauryan Empire. Luckily (for the Mauryan Empire), it had fortified its borders and prepared numerous armies, in fact, it had the largest military it would ever have. While the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom was stronger, it was also much larger, and due to the constant warring, infrastructure worsened, and rebellions appeared. And it also had to guard its borders. Thus, when in 173 BC war was declared (by the overconfident Greco-Bactrian Kingdom of course), besides some initial gains, the war stagnated and became an endless bloody war. It was infact compared to 'throwing people in an endless pit'. The Mauryan Empire took their territory back, took small parts of Greco-Bactria, and stagnated. Greco-Bactria took back its territory, and a bit of the Mauryan Empire, and was pushed back. This situation didn't change until 168 BC. Over the years, rebellion had grown worse, and Greco-Bactria had nearly no army left (a token guard on its borders and a small army on the Mauryan border), but the same was true for the Mauryan Empire, and because the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom was larger and thus could refill their armies quicker than the Mauryan Empire, they would eventually win. But that didn't happen, for in 168 BC, Greco-Bactria needed far more soldiers. Its lands were raided, its cities plundered, and all by rebels originating from inside Greco-Bactria. A simple peace treaty was signed with no conditions besides an end of the war because the Mauryan Empire was also tired of the war, the borders weren't redrawn, and thus the borders between the 2 nations were a bit (very slightly) different. It was too late though, the soldiers hurried away from the front and managed to hold portions of Greco-Bactria together, but the western parts were lost to countless rebels (but not to existing nations like Graece). Parthia broke free from Greco-Bactria, and acquired much of its old territory back due to its loyal citizens and general rebellion.

The Nova Imperium Romanum
In 169 BC, the rebellions in Carthago (well, the area above the Mare Internum) were so bad, that the few Carthaginian armies were recalled (who didn't manage to defeat much rebels though, and only suffered casualities due to the radically different thinking barbarians from the north who moved into Carthago and joined the rebellion), and that negotiations with the rebels were opened. Roma Nova demanded the former territory of Romanum back and a bit more. But the glory of what once was Romanum was now lost, more than circa 20% of its population was made up of barbarians from the north, while only circa 5% or 10% were Romans (most had been killed by Carthago during the Second Phoenician War, by Graece after Philip V united it, or by rebels and barbarians), another circa 5% or 10% were Greeks, and the other circa 60% (probably more)Carthaginian. What few people of other nationalities were in Romanum weren't even 1% combined, or so we think. In hindsight, it is very strange that a super power like Carthago circa two thirds of its territory (Iberia was also lost, more on that later), and there are probably reasons for this, but as far as we know, Carthago dominated the markets and the seas, and its homeland (in northern Afrika) was well guarded and flourished unlike any other nation. Maybe the territories above the Mare Internum were nothing more than a pest to Carthago, with its many rebellions forcing it to send armies to quell those). Maybe Hannibal died in one such rebellions, for no records have been written about him after the razing of Roma, but it is a likely possibility. However, the Nova Imperium Romanum was born. Barbarians flooded it, and with no army (well, if you count the very small force of the former Roma Nova, they have an army), it was plundered, sacked, razed, burned... And the same was true for its inhabitants. But somehow, it survived, probably because of mercenaries, massive drafting (which led to massive hunger in return, which led to massive deaths), and the fact that there were far less barbarians in the immediate surrounding of the Nova Imperium Romanum than in our timeline (many barbarians had moved further north, disgusted at the so called 'civilized barbarians'). The Nova Imperium Romanum was more like a collection of extremely small areas, ruled by a local despot, but somehow, it stayed united. Because of the massive hunger due to the massive drafts, the despots invited people to work on their farms. They would be well fed, and protected by the despot. However, if there was a threat, some had to stop farming and help defend the fortress. This became a massive trend in the Nova Imperium Romanum and in Iberia, and a few years or so later, also in the collapsed Greco-Bactrian Kingdom. And to a lesser extent in some Ptolemaic rebel nations and the Mauryan Empire. Carthago and Graece had no need for this system, for they were the superpowers now, and the only centers of knowledge and wisdom, and they became to be seen as beacons of light, as eternal paradises.

The Iberian Peninsula War
However, the Carthaginian lands in Iberia rebel slightly more than half a year later (still in 169 BC), also due to barbarian influence (and remember, the Iberian Union and the Hispanion Union are simply unified barbarian tribes), and the lands (except for very small parts, like where Carthago Nova is) are claimed by both the Iberian Union and the Hispanion Union. After a few weeks, a new war begins because of this. Carthago sneakily conquers small parts of Iberia, and eventually, the war becomes a three-way war. Most of the barbarians on Iberia either ally theirselves with the Iberian Union or the Hispanion Union, and after a year or so, the Iberian Union is largely victorious (although border guards are ever ready and tensions are still high). Only small parts of Iberia aren't yet controlled by 'civilized' beings.

The Jayo Phony War
A few months after the rebellion of Carthaginian lands in Iberia, the Jayo claims the whole Pyrenees and the lands around it. There are nearly no people living in the Pyrenees besides the Jayo, but the lands around have been claimed by the Nova Imperium Romanum and the Hispanion Union. The Nova Imperium Romanum, the Hispanion Union, and even Carthago, all react, although Carthago only sends a single army, the Imperium Romanum a few barbaric hordes (it goes like "Hey, barbarians, want to conquer some lands?" "WAAAAAGH!"), and most likely these barbarians were intent on conquering for their own interests, and wouldn't have given their holdings up to the Nova Imperium Romanum. The Hispanion Union also does only slightly more than nothing, it fortifies its borders, which probably lead to their defeat by the Iberian Union. The Jayo win (facing next to no resistance), and the Jayo rename theirselves into Yohui for their leader died. Perhaps in the 'war', perhaps not. The situation in Iberia is much better than in the Nova Imperium Romanum. The southern parts of Iberia are rich and civilized, but the northern parts have nearly no farms, no cities, only wandering (and settled) tribes of barbarians. The Jayo live in small villages all around the Pyrenees, and have just enough food to feed their people, but with their new lands (which aren't much though), they may develop more and more.

Of course, this will be continued, many wars have yet to be fought, many nations yet to be revealed, and multiple maps have yet to be posted.

Verba volant, scripta manent
Today, Latin is still used by some, as is Phoenician. The reason for the survival of Latin is that Carthago kept Romanum as it was, besides razing Roma and killing any rebels (and failing hard at that). Slowly, Latin became mixed with Phoenician and barbaric languages, and became what is now known as Lacian, but true Latin spread to Graece or even various barbarians. Indeed, many Romans fled out of fear after Hannibal had razed Roma. They fled to Graece, and some few to barbaric tribes, claiming that the Carthaginians were even more barbaric for they had razed Roma. Graece was at that time still divided, and besides Makedonia and anyone in its influence sphere, no one rejected the Romans. A few years later, when Graece was united, much larger, and ruled by Philip V of Makedonia, Roman citizens were only slightly more than slaves, and those who could flee did so, mainly to the Seleucid Empire and the Ptolemaic Empire. Philip V did this mainly to improve relations with Carthago (although they were already friendly towards each other), but Carthago didn't really like the prosecution of all Romans. Latin however, was preserved, and even, studied and spoken by the upper class of the people. And the Gauls and other barbaric tribes had similar grammer which helped too. A different version of Phoenician is still spoken, mainly in Carthago, and became, like Latin, some sort of romanticized language which was studied and would be spoken by the upper class of various nations. Today however, true Latin isn't an official language of any country, but Phoenician is (of Carthago, but it has changed over the years). Europa speaks a combination of Latin, Phoenician, Norse, and barbaric dialects. Every nation has a different language of course.