And we keep going several hundred years until we enter into the third century BCE. And this is a map of what the Mediterranean at least looks like, roughly as we enter into that third century BCE. And you see, even though that Rome has now exerted its power over most of the Italian peninsula right over here, it was not the dominant power in the Mediterranean. 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.