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- In the 50 years since the conquests of Alexander the Great, the civilized
- world has become virtually a Greek world. Alexander's premature death in
- 323 B.C. provoked a series of wars among his generals for the control of an empire
- that stretched from Southern Italy to India. Eventually it was subdivided
- into three relatively stable kingdoms ruled by the descendents of three of
- his generals, Seleucus's kingdom in Asia, Ptolemy's kingdom in Africa, and
- Antigonus's kingdom in Europe. They coexist harmoniously with the great
- mercantile power, Carthage, based in northwestern Africa. The only serious
- threats to peace springs from periodic invasions of the warlike Celts of
- central Europe. Recently, however, a small republic with the unassuming name
- of Rome has emerged from several centuries of regional warfare as the
- dominant power of the Italian peninsula. The stage is now set for a stunning
- series of campaigns in which Rome, historically, conquered, in turn, the
- western Greeks, Carthage, the Celts, and, finally, the three Greek empires
- to become master of the Western world.
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