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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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