A Comm for Historymemes

Don't forget the part where some shitty Roman senator visited Carthage and was outraged that they were still living better than the Romans were instead of in squalor despite the large tribute they were charging.

I'm really curious what history would have looked like if Carthage's oligarchs had been willing to support Hannibal during the decade or so he was doing what he wanted and destroying Roman legions about as fast as they could raise them. Not that I would have expected Carthage to be any better, but maybe things would have been different with another regional power standing in the way of Rome taking the entire Mediterranean and ruling an area so large that Constantine wanted something to unite his people so that Iberians might be willing to go die in wars in the Middle East.