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I think ATP meant to post this here. And actually, picking out the Greeks in Egypt at this time as the non-inbreeders is freaking hilarious. The Macedonian Ptolemy dynasty Pharoahs were infamous inbreeders, like not just cousin marriage, but brother sister marriage. We're talking family trees...

A great question - and vice versa. I suppose it is reasonable to ask if peoples in Indonesia or the Philippines develop alphabetic scripts as direct spinoffs of Carthaginian contact from the east or Indian contact from the west. I am going to think, much, much less time. Like a pretty...

The Byzantines managed to do well by one metric alone - long term survival for a millenium. They weren't so great at the other metric, being the all-conquering, space-filling empire. After losing Egypt and North Africa, the Byzantines never had more than Asia Minor, Syrian borderlands, Armenia...

A suggestible, pro-Roman, yet not bloody-minded ASB happens to tune in to the Roman Senate in the 150s BC and often hears from Cato that Carthage must be destroyed. She figures its time to separate the Romans and Carthaginians. Working in very broad strokes, the ASB transplants Rome's...