Ancient History

Well I do believe that a chieftain like Romulus. helped to found Rome. From looking at the next few kings and rulers, it would make sense.

Romulus has still gone into history as one of the seven kings of Rome. I doubt he never existed, although the story of him being raised by a wolf doesn't sound too convincing.

Yeah I believe the wolf part was added later. Either that or it was the part about the Trojan king/prince that was added later.

Its been proven that the Romans are ancestors of Aeneas.

The part about Troy might've been added to explain the Romans part of their heritage, in Roman mythology, Aeneas (ancestor of Romulus and Remus) was the son of Venus, which would make it so that Augustus (who ordered the full myth to be written down by Vergilius) could name himself "family" of the gods.

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They actually proved it? Wow, I never knew that. Do you have a source, now I'm interested?

Wow really? Can you give me a link or something. I am really interested in this. (Not saying I dont believe you)

Not entirely proven....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeneas
Though it is most likely considering Carthage's founder was his "lover".

Well, that's what the myth says, I guess it's been written like this to show the rivalry between Carthage and Rome.

The myth isn't too real but Aeneas was probably a real person.

On a different subject do you know how to mod Europa Universalis III Complete on Steam?

Yeah, he was the...nephew of Priamus, wasn't he?

Modding as in making a mod, well, a bit, as for installing a mod: I wrote a post in another thread on setting up an EU3 games which explains how to install mods pretty well.

So what if Alexander the Great had lived longer

*Damn my ancient history knowledge has gone downhill by alot, I need to focus on it more*

It would've delayed the inevitable, as his men were weary of all the fighting, and wanted to go home.

I honestly think he would have taken the European rout once he went home and tried his luck there instead of going towards India, but with his increasing drunkenness and erratic behavior he would have lost eventually.

I think maybe he would have appointed a proper heir and we might not see the Diadochi's rise up. Or maybe that would make a significantly less amount of diadochi's rise up.

I don't know, the Diadochi might not have recognised him as the true successor, and started a war over it anyway.

Well then like I said above, maybe there would be significantly less diadochi than there actually was.

Hmm, that could be true. Then, would it have split into fewer but larger nations? An empire that has been conquered in a single lifetime doesn't usually hold out for very long.

[quote="UnitRico, post: 182393, member: 124" An empire that has been conquered in a single lifetime doesn't usually hold out for very long.[/quote]
It works in Eu3

Yeah, but in EU3, Ryukyu can conquer the world. I don't think that counts.

Ah, but it lies on the events of the world and the skills of the leader(player)