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Published: 2010-03-13 14:55:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 7443; Favourites: 11; Downloads: 40
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This is a WIP for my new timeline, based in a world where Alexander the Great had a son with Roxana, and avoided his mysterious death. This map in particular is probably set sometime around 50BC, mainly showing the Macedonian Empire under the continuing Argead Dynasty (Alexander's lineage) and the Carthage-Rasenna Republic, a constitutional monarchy formed by the union of Carthage in Africa/Iberia and Rasenna to the north in Europe. Rasenna also includes Rome, who joined Rasenna to avoid Greek/Macedonian persecution.This timeline is still in need of a name, and a system of writing dates (can't very well use BC and AD, what with a divergence point in the 330's BC
), so I'm open to suggestions.
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Love the idea - you could always use the Olympiad method of time keeping
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Hmm, perhaps, but a lot of the initial changes and interesting points take place away from the Aegean...
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true enough..but it all started there in the first place...could try alexanders family name as the lagcay name..or his sons...kinda like the tudors or stuarts..their names came to mean the actual dynasty they ran
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Well, the divergence point itself happens in some warm bedroom or secluded corner one night in one of Alexander's palaces, somewhere in Mesopotamia... 
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Yep 
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true enough lol
btw ya get my notes?
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Indeed I did, I'll give them some thought before replying with any tips
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well the main reason they havent already is cos they dont need too...they dont see the point in expanding any further...it may be split among 4 different empires, but their most amicable, with only revolts really from the frere de versaille group ( french version of the sons of liberty) or independant parties that realy only exssit in the minority
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Heh ok
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lol doubt it was that secluded XD
btw whats rasenna...cant find anything bout them.
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This is interesting.
How about using the founding of some important city or Alexander's ascension to the throne of Macedon as the origin point for the dates? Or maybe, depending on where this goes, the unification of Carthage and Rassena?
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Thanks
Hmm interesting... the Macedonian conquest of Babylon, perhaps? Maybe even Alexander's birth... But yeah, like you say, it does depend where it goes - I'm not sure who will end up the most dominant yet. I'm considering the Carthaginian invention of the longbow after a Carthage-Rasenna diplomat is taken on a hunting trip while visiting the Magadha in India... would be a boon in the attack on Macedonian Egypt
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seems good, guessing grey lines are subject countries, and you could use the conquest of west india as a time point since it seems thats when he made the greatest extent of his empire.
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Yup, grey lines show vassal or suplicant states
Ahh, the conquests in India actually come before the conquests in Carpathia, Arabia, and to the south of Egypt... Carpathia in particular is a legacy of his great-grandson, Alexander V Argead
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The India conquest was still a landmark for him, and besides, you just said carpathia was his greatgrandson's doing rather than his.
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Actually, in this timeline, India has become a bit of an embaresment for the Ageads... it's their one great failure, where Alexander III himself was well and truely repulsed. The Arabian conquest is more well thought of, and the Macedonian army's travel back up the Nile after they crossed the Red Sea near Aden.
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Right, so the Region was their Afghani war, just as hard to take as history it was too.
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Alexander's Indian campaign went pretty much as it did in our world to start with - the difference was that after the first round of defeats, Alexander returned to Babylon, deciding instead to consolidate and build a legacy to leave for his son to continue
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sounds like a plan then, the fact it held together would be amazing
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