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POD: Alexander doesn't die in 323 BCE
Map takes place in 150 BCE

"Alexander III of Macedon was one ambitious young man. He sought to conquer the known world and place it under his mighty thumb. Beginning in -4 AG, the Achaemenid Persian Empire was invaded, and within 10 years the largest empire the known world had seen was crushed. But Alexander did not stop there. He invaded India in 6 AG, and drove the Pauravas back to the Central Indian Plain, and made them submit to Macedonia. In 10 AG, the city of Babylon was ordained the capital of this mighty empire. One more thing stood in Alexander's way: Carthage. The sea-faring nation started off as minute colonies of Phoenicia, but once the Persians conquered the homeland, the Punics as they were called, expanded far beyond the city walls and across the coast of North Africa.

The Punic-Macedon War began in 21 AG, the space between the end of the Indian campaign and the Carthaginian campaign allowed Macedonia to expand its army and navy to a force not replicated until the mid 11th century AG. Within a year, Carthage was no more, having felt the full wrath of Alexander's military. Arabia was the last to be invaded, and by 50 AG, most of the known world pledged allegiance to Babylon. Alexander lived the rest of his life in solitude, dying on 16 Hyperberetos 58 AG at the ripe old age of 84. Over the next two centuries, other nations would rise in Europe and Asia.

Far away in China the Zhou dynasty had fell into disarray, the Warring States period in full force. By 200 AG, the Chu dynasty won, unifying China for the time being. But things would go down within a few decades. Dissent within the government would lead to the Dual Revolt, where the Wu and Yan dynasties declared sovereignty, leaving China three countries. In northern Europe the tribes of Gaul would band together, forming the Gallic Realm by 229 AG. On the other side of the River Renos(read: Rhine), the Vourgoundians would attack their neighbors and within a few years the Vourgund Kingdom was born.

But out east in Central Asia, the Sakas under Macedonian suzerainty would meet the Xiongnu tribes heading west. By 250 AG, connections between west and east were made, and a period of unprecedented trade and wealth began. This period would later be known as the Age of Connection, which would last until the mid 6th century AG. Macedonia on the other hand, would not survive to see the end of the era, being dissolved into smaller kingdoms and republics by 600 AG. It would take until the year 833 for a new empire to fill the hole left behind..."

- Leonidas Andrianakis, The Age of Connection (2341 AG/2011 OTL)

Description
POD: Alexander doesn't die in 323 BCE
Map takes place in 150 BCE

"Alexander III of Macedon was one ambitious young man. He sought to conquer the known world and place it under his mighty thumb. Beginning in -4 AG, the Achaemenid Persian Empire was invaded, and within 10 years the largest empire the known world had seen was crushed. But Alexander did not stop there. He invaded India in 6 AG, and drove the Pauravas back to the Central Indian Plain, and made them submit to Macedonia. In 10 AG, the city of Babylon was ordained the capital of this mighty empire. One more thing stood in Alexander's way: Carthage. The sea-faring nation started off as minute colonies of Phoenicia, but once the Persians conquered the homeland, the Punics as they were called, expanded far beyond the city walls and across the coast of North Africa.

The Punic-Macedon War began in 21 AG, the space between the end of the Indian campaign and the Carthaginian campaign allowed Macedonia to expand its army and navy to a force not replicated until the mid 11th century AG. Within a year, Carthage was no more, having felt the full wrath of Alexander's military. Arabia was the last to be invaded, and by 50 AG, most of the known world pledged allegiance to Babylon. Alexander lived the rest of his life in solitude, dying on 16 Hyperberetos 58 AG at the ripe old age of 84. Over the next two centuries, other nations would rise in Europe and Asia.

Far away in China the Zhou dynasty had fell into disarray, the Warring States period in full force. By 200 AG, the Chu dynasty won, unifying China for the time being. But things would go down within a few decades. Dissent within the government would lead to the Dual Revolt, where the Wu and Yan dynasties declared sovereignty, leaving China three countries. In northern Europe the tribes of Gaul would band together, forming the Gallic Realm by 229 AG. On the other side of the River Renos(read: Rhine), the Vourgoundians would attack their neighbors and within a few years the Vourgund Kingdom was born.

But out east in Central Asia, the Sakas under Macedonian suzerainty would meet the Xiongnu tribes heading west. By 250 AG, connections between west and east were made, and a period of unprecedented trade and wealth began. This period would later be known as the Age of Connection, which would last until the mid 6th century AG. Macedonia on the other hand, would not survive to see the end of the era, being dissolved into smaller kingdoms and republics by 600 AG. It would take until the year 833 for a new empire to fill the hole left behind..."

- Leonidas Andrianakis, The Age of Connection (2341 AG/2011 OTL)