Although loyal to Rome, they were never friendly to each other. The two kingdoms became client states of Rome, with Regnum Teutonii in the immediate north and the Regnum Saxonii to the northeast. Eventually the Teutones were left with the uppermost parts of the region while the Saxones moved east-southeast into the lands of the vanquished Semnones. The Teutones and Semnones fought viciously with the Saxones for control of northern Germania. In the time after the creation of the Area Hermundurii all the major tribes surrounding Roman Germany became increasingly Romanized. As their reward, Augustus declared they should have an autonomous province, which he ceded from Roman territory, the tribes subsequently proved loyal to the Imperium throughout the history of the province. He was subsequently handed over to the Romans by the leaders of the Hermunduri as a traitor. This led to Arminius, when he attempted to lead a revolt of the Cherusci tribe against Rome, being captured and by the German tribes. While the Germans were lukewarm towards Roman rule they accepted the Romanization of their culture. 6 A.D.)ĭuring Augustus' reign the Romanization of Germania was successful and the lands up to the Albis were pacified. N.B.- some dates have a small addendum beginning with "I.E.", these are important events that take place on or around the date to which they are attached.ĭCCXLI A.U.C. When Augustus Caesar (Octavian) sent troops to conquer Germania, but failed. The point of divergence (POD) is roughly 12 B.C. For those not familiar with Roman numerals, they are as follows: M=1000, D=500, C=100, L=50, X=10, V=5, I=1. AUC is the Roman year, HC is the Hebrew calendar year, AD is the Christian calendar, and MC is the Muslim calendar. Here is the alternate course of Rome as I think it would have developed. 5.3.1 Begin Pescennians (Syrian Despotate).Publius Cornelius Scipio hastily assembled his Consular Army and set sail for the Greek city of Massilia, in a daring attempt to cut off the Carthaginian advance. Hannibal amassed an unprecedented army of mercenaries and local levies in Hispania, disappearing into Gaul with 75,000 men and 9,000 cavalry. The intricate duel of diplomatic thrusts and parries persisted for almost 20 years until Carthaginian General Hannibal Barca's flagrant attack on the Roman-aligned Iberian city of Saguntum humiliated the Senate and finally provoked them to war. They consistently attempted to incite Celtic invasions of Northern Italia and did everything in their power to harass Rome, short of sparking an outright conflict. Carthago Nova, on the Eastern Iberian coast, grew into one of the richest cities on Earth and served as a power base with which the Carthaginians exerted considerable control over their neighboring Celt-Iberians.
Roman victory in the First Punic War had seemingly stripped Carthage of her teeth, but through the Barcid family's aggressive expansion in Hispania they were given command of vast silver reserves. Though once allies in mutual fear of King Pyrrhus of Epirus, Romano-Carthaginian relations plummeted to a simmering distrust during the best of times and an outright hatred on most other occasions. Rome was in 535 AUC a great power humbled. These realms, locked as they were in their own struggles to overcome all others, paid little attention to the seemingly unimportant people of a minor city state who would prove the masters of the known world. Carthaginians still laid claim to the whole of the Mare Internum and untold numbers of Celtic peoples suspiciously eyed the riches of their southern neighbors. The shattered Diadochi re-fought endless battles in the desperate hope that perhaps they might be the true heir to Alexander. Mauryan India continued to stand as a bastion of peace and civilisation against the raiding peoples of Asia, but the rumblings of unrest in Asoka's Kingdom of Heaven would continue to slowly grow. In the Far East, the Chinese Dragon ascended under Qin Shi Huang. Great Empires ebbed and flowed like the tides.
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