Who was in the wrong here?

Who was in the wrong here?

The Mamertines
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The Sicilians

This. Sicily was partially controlled by Rome (or rather, some Greek colonies who decided to fall under it in the face of Carthaginian expansion) and Carthago, and was a flashpoint for conflict.

They just happened to live between two huge expansionistic powers, it's not like they wanted to set stage for what must've seemed a world war to them.

Would Western Civilization be the same as it is today if Romans lost the war?

Maybe we'dhave liked merchants more and soldiers less?

This. Backstabbing cunts

The implications of Rome losing here are so massive its impossible to contemplate what the world would look like 2000 years later.

>Rome loses
>no Roman empire
>no jewish diaspora
>no christianity
>no islam
>no genocide of Celts
>Carthage probably ends up creating a mediteranian trade empire
>oce Cathage falls their decendents 2000 years latter start LARping as them

the list just goes on and on

>>no genocide of Celts
For the love of God there was no genocide of Celts.

Did someone larp as Carthage in our timeline, though?

Also, Carthage wouldn't become a trade empire, it would militarize and then centralize into Imperium too. Interestingly, it would be secure from any intrusion of barbaric hordes, as long as it would hold Mare Nostrum.

>no christianity
Which is interesting... Carthago is a Semitic colony, who worshipped Baal, Dagon and the whole bunch condemned by the Jews. What would be dynamic when they got into Judea?

>Rome loses
>western Europeans stays uncivilised for centuries
>Hellenistic kingdoms never fell and the Middle East becomes even more Hellenised than before
>Seleucids vs Parthians

This is the Second Punic War, not the first

>you will never see the seleucids reunite alexanders empire after recieving massive amounts of aid form carthage for the trade of judea and phoenicia

As always, whoever lost

I don't understand why you think that a Roman loss would be a complete destruction of the entire Republic. There's literally 0 basis for that.

Magna graecia* greek apes ruin everything. Fuck diodorus siculus and his bias against carthaginians

>Did someone larp as Carthage in our timeline, though?
the irish

more civilized than you maximus

This. Carthaginians weren't evil genocidal maniacs like the Romans

T. Hasdrubal