Carthago Nova, on the Eastern Iberian coast, grew into one of the richest cities on Earth and served as a power base with which the Carthaginians exerted considerable control over their neighboring Celt-Iberians.
Roman victory in the First Punic War had seemingly stripped Carthage of her teeth, but through the Barcid family's aggressive expansion in Hispania they were given command of vast silver reserves. Though once allies in mutual fear of King Pyrrhus of Epirus, Romano-Carthaginian relations plummeted to a simmering distrust during the best of times and an outright hatred on most other occasions. Rome was in 535 AUC a great power humbled. These realms, locked as they were in their own struggles to overcome all others, paid little attention to the seemingly unimportant people of a minor city state who would prove the masters of the known world. Carthaginians still laid claim to the whole of the Mare Internum and untold numbers of Celtic peoples suspiciously eyed the riches of their southern neighbors. The shattered Diadochi re-fought endless battles in the desperate hope that perhaps they might be the true heir to Alexander. Mauryan India continued to stand as a bastion of peace and civilisation against the raiding peoples of Asia, but the rumblings of unrest in Asoka's Kingdom of Heaven would continue to slowly grow. In the Far East, the Chinese Dragon ascended under Qin Shi Huang. Great Empires ebbed and flowed like the tides.
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