>>10480441Eh, even though I'd usually just say
>pretending you can map historical timelines neatly into a new situation as a predictorI'll play along with this whole idea and say that we're not even at that far along era yet. I'd say, if you want to think like that, we're barely even in the latter era of the Italian Conquests.
/hlg/ being Troy and /jp/ being Greece, the strong forebears who ended up becoming wracked with internal strife to the point where it left them weak and supplanted by the two new states, one of which ran to Italy after an enemy got into the city and ransacked it whole (paralleling the Trojan war's end) and the other being a distant yet similar kingdom that would be defined as the rival of the other kingdom (NijiEN being forced by this analogy into the somewhat unwitting role of Carthage).
We're past the era of Rome rebuilding after the Gauls sacked the city in the early era, and now in the long era of coexistence with the other Italian city-states and occasional bands of raiders.
I could workshop this more to fit better given time, but point is, if you want to much pretend and map the past onto the present, this analogy seems like a better fit.
