In addition, a rump Tartessian state would survive in the Iberian Peninsula and would also reach at times into North Africa. However, they would end up providing the imperial model to emulate in the West until the present day much like the Roman Empire did and the Tartessian script, an abugida, would be the main script that would be used in the West.
However, in this world, the Tartessians survived and thrived past whatever unknown catastrophe brought about their decline and fall in our world and eventually took the place of the Romans with the Tartessians uniting much of the Mediterranean (Egypt proved to be too hard a nut to crack to take on for the Iberia-based Empire with Tartessos settling for puppet pharaohs in Thebes) under their banner with their creole of Indo-European, proto-Basque, and Berber (linguists determined it combined basic Indo-European grammar with lots of loan words from Vasconic and Berber languages) developing into the main languages of large portions of Europe and North Africa, with the exception of the Greeks and Carthaginians, people whose cultures the Tartessians respected much like how the Romans in our world had a deep respect for Hellenic culture.Įventually, all empires fell and Tartessos was no different, falling to Slavic invaders pushed west by Iranic steppe peoples (the Tartessians reached further into *Germany than the Romans, conquering everything up to the Oder with Germanic peoples being restricted to Scandinavia). While Plato’s stories of Atlantis are definitely just a story, there are indications that his stories might have been based on the Tartessians, a mysterious civilization in Spain which collapsed around c. Report from the Interdimensional Task Force to Chairwoman Kira Antonova:
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