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    How could Rome best stop/slow the spread of Christianity?

    The strength of christianity was the doctrine of salvation. The vast majority of the people these days had a very hard life and no chance to ascend in the roman society, or they simply failed already to do so. However, salvation offered the solution! Everything becomes better after your death...
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    Roman Fleet stranded on the shores of the New World massive Storm

    Ancient ships trend to break their keel easily if heavy swell. Therefore they did not sail during winter and always tried to stay near to the coast. Especially in the Atlantic Ocean. No way a roman ship can survive a storm on the Atlantic. Only chance is, to reach land before the storm reaches...
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    How did the Second Triumvirate divide the Roman Empire?

    Finally provinces were less important than the ability to manipulate the roman senate, the plebs urbana and the roman citizens in Italy; especially manipulating the clients of the other triumvirs. And Octavianus did an outstanding job at this "home front".
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    Roman rump states?

    If the moslems stop in Egypt and never invade roman Africa, by whatever reasons, there is a chance, that the romans and the berbers cut a deal. Like they already did more than once. And looking from Carthago to Hispania et Sicilia (and beyond), history would be fully different. The end of the...
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    What if the Roman empire never conquers England

    4 legions more at the Rhine river. Actually it had been 11 legions, before Claudius started his campain in Britain. Caligula already moved most of them to Germania. And emperor Claudius the gimp still needs a victory badly. What do you think he is doing with these 4 legions more at the Rhine...
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    How could have Rome survived until present day ?

    Since Diokletian the undivded roman empire was ruled by a senior Augustus in the East and a junior Augustus in the west. In 476 the senior Augustus in Constantinople was Zeno. And his junior Augustus, who was enthroned by Zeno's precedessor, was Julius Nepos. Unfortunately Nepos' magister...
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    How could have Rome survived until present day ?

    None of these approaches would work.
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    Roman Eastern Europe - What would it be called?

    Depends of the timeframe. A lot of terms in this list are not classic latin and were invented centuries after the Fall of Rome.
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    Roman Eastern Europe - What would it be called?

    Just call them Venedi, like Plinius and Tacitus did, and you got Venedia, because Venetia is aleady one of the 12 augustean regions in North-East Italy. Venedia is north of Sarmatia, south of Estia (aka Hestia, Aestia) and east of Germania ulterior, which is the most eastern german province up...
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    What POD to Have Early Industrialization in Roman Period?

    Of course not. But we should not forget the 300 years from 1500 to 1770. A lot was developed, which finally helped industrialization.
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    What POD to Have Early Industrialization in Roman Period?

    LOL, such channels are trivial from a roman point of view. Roman water engineering was not reached again until the 18th century when french and english engineers started to take care about these big sinkholes called Paris and London. And who says that the romans had no water-mill driven forges...
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    What POD to Have Early Industrialization in Roman Period?

    The mills are not that different. It is the water. ;) The romans were able to bring water to every place: where you need it, when you need it, and what volume you need. Way beyond of the imagination of a medieval engineer.
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    What POD to Have Early Industrialization in Roman Period?

    There are some articles about the population of the roman empire and its evolution. Sometimes mentioning and guessing slave population. But nothing special focussing on the evolution of slave-population. Not that I know of.
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    What POD to Have Early Industrialization in Roman Period?

    If tenancy became the main business model in agriculture, where 80% of the people worked, slavery must have decreased. Perhaps house slaves and state slaves were not impacted. But they got no numbers anyways. Also look at the late roman codices. For every law about slavery you got 10 laws about...
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    WI: Columbus never reached the New World

    There is a theory that the portuguese already discovered Brazil a few years before Columbus, but kept it secret. Actually due to wind and flux, you cannot avoid to reach Brazil, if you sail regulary around Africa. It must happen.
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    What POD to Have Early Industrialization in Roman Period?

    I am surprised, that this urban myth is always popping up again. The roman economy changed from slavery to tenancy already during the 1st century AD. Latest in the 2nd century AD, tenancy was the main business model, e.g. we can't find any hint of slavery in the new dacian mines. Same with...
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    WI Odoacer gave Western Roman Imperial insignia to the Pope?

    It does'nt matter, whom he gives these insignia. The only one, who is entitled to appoint a junior Augustus is the senior Augustus. In a perfect world, the roman emperor marches west in 800 AD and kills the pope and his usurpator Carolus. ;) PS: Afaik, Odoaker gave the insignia to the senate in...
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    To what extend is the third century crisis related to actions of the Severran dynasty?

    Some historians believe, that the pay rise of Severus was badly needed due to an already existing moderate inflation. Remember, there was no pay rise since Domitian. Even if some usual deductions from salary were most probably canceled during the 2nd century as a kind of indirect pay rise. But...
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    Could Augustus Have Restored the Republic?

    Don't become a victim of augustean propaganda. The principate was the opposite of a restoration. Mommsen, the great historian of the 19th century even called it "The Roman Revolution". Well, nowadays we have a more precise definition of the term revolution. So modern historians call it the...
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    Could Augustus Have Restored the Republic?

    Just another thought about restoration. The OP asked, how Augustus could have restored the republic. The simple answer is: he can't! Because restorations don't work. The constitution of the res publica libera did not longer match the reality and the constitutional needs of the current roman...
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