Campaign progression maps every 5 years.

[Akka]

What difficulty do you have it set at? I've played a few full campaigns on medium/medium, and the map hardly moves. Not even the great Roman houses really do much conquering.

Well, I've had a quite different experience ^^
Egypt and the Roman Houses always go for a conquest rampage.

[troymclure]

I've played a fair few campaigns (never one past about 190-180 bc though) and so far that map looks about normal. Of course different factions do differently depending upon luck o' the draw but i'll agree with previous poster that said Rome and the Egyptians are the big movers. Dacia as in the map always does well and so do gaul till the marius reforms kick in.