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I was planning on have a focus on culture, and was hoping to avoid the wars that will inevitably occur in the west. I was hoping to expand, but through colonialism. Also...

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I'm not criticizing, but the time you seem to be describing (300 bc) was fairly late in human history. This means this world's equivalents of Aristotle, Ptolemy, Euclid et cetera should be emerging immediately.
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Missed this. Just don't worry about it, focus your energies in letting go of these benign details. We're here to play, not to make similarities between Earth and some fictional world I created in an afternoon. We're in an "ancient" setting, as long as you've understood that much, then we're good.