It was really the upstart, the new and growing empire. There were other significant empires. You see here the remnants of Alexander the Great's empire, his successors, each now with their own significant empire, and in particular, Ptolemaic Egypt and Seleucid Persia, which had control over much of the Middle East. And the other empire that you see here in blue was the Carthaginian Empire. And as we will see, in the third and second centuries BCE, Rome and Carthage are going to come at loggerheads. And Rome eventually is going to overthrow Carthage as the dominant empire in the Mediterranean. But you can see in this map right over here, entering into the third century BCE, Carthage that you see in blue was a significant empire.