Hey guys i am currently in the process of doing a short story based in the ancient world and i want to know what it (the ancient world) was like in the Pre Roman republic days what kind of civilisations where there what kind of sociatle structure would they have and so forth . the main culture i am focusing on in my story are the Alan nomads (proto Iranians)
Alright can you first give a concrete year to work from?
That completely depends on time and region. During the early years of the republic, for instance, the major powers in the mediterranean were Carthage and greece City States or Kingdoms. Bascially you had everything: tribes, confederations of tribes, city states ruled by an oligarchy like Rome ande Carthage (=republics) and kingdomes like the Ptolemaic reign in Egypt.