roman empire

While Caligula's name has become a byword for insane tyrants, he didn't start out that way. According to ancient sources, the first six months of his rule were good. Then he suffered a severe illness. While he recovered physically, he was never the same mentally. Let us suppose he never...

As the tin says. Alexios and Andronikos were John’s most capable sons and campaigned heavily with him. Alexios has already been crowned his co-emperor. Unfortunately first Alexios and then Andronikos died prematurely from diseases while campaigning with their father. What if their illnesses...

Ever since the Second Temple was destroyed by Titus in 70 CE, many Jews have dreamed of building a third temple on the traditional site. These wishes were seemingly granted when Hadrian promised to build a new temple. But Hadrian went back on his word, building a Colonia called Aelia Capitolina...

Disclaimer: this is not an attempt to troll or propose ASB stuff. This part of a recent post from @Dante tiggered the Galactic Empire's fanboy that is inside me, unleashing parallelisms between Octavian and Palpatine. Of course, there are also a lot of differences not only between the two, but...

So I have begun working on planning a world with a POD in 430. During the Siege of Hippo, St. Augustine recovers from his sickness and doesn't die. Thus, when the Vandals capture the city, he is still alive. Due to Vandal religious policies, Augustine is an open critic resulting in his...

Just as the tin says, could the Roman Empire stay united, and even last if an early form of federalism took hold?

What if, while captured by pirates at a young age, Caesar was killed by the pirates? We wont focus completely on the "why" he was killed by the pirates, but rather the future of the Republic. Was an empire destined to come? Would Rome stay a republic? Who would lead Rome in the future? Would...

Boudica's revolt, along with resistance against Roman rule in the southern half of Great Britain, came to an end when her forces were decisively defeated at the Battle of Watling Street, and she subsequently died (either poisoning herself or catching a fatal illness). While it's not clear how...

In the long span of Roman history, the average length of an emperor's reign was something like seven years. This average only includes the emperors generally regarded as "legitimate" by historians. When factoring the total number of men who have, at one time or another, claimed the imperial...

With a pod from the reign of King George III who was a very active monarch till around the 1890's British Empire how can the Crown retake power from Parliament and unofficially sideline the parliament into a rubber stamp like how the French Kings (Louis XIV) did it and Augustus sidelining the...

This is going to have huge butterflies. What if the Roman Empire never existed and there is only a Roman Republic confined to the Italian peninsula and nearby islands? What might the future of culture, history, science, society be like? What might Europe be like?

In 363, the Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate attempted to rebuild the Jewish Temple, likely at least partially as part of his efforts to reverse Constantine's Christianization campaign. However, the outbreak of fires forced the project's cancellation, and Christianity reasserted control over...

The fall of Constantinople is often considered to be one of the biggest blows to Christendom in history. However, the remaining Christian Kingdoms did not attempt to reclaim the ancient city. What if the Pope decided to declare a crusade to reclaim the Balkans and Anatolia around 1470 against...

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The rise and fall of the Gauls and the Gallic empire was a rather interesting piece of European history. Native Celts in modern day France trying to fend off Roman invaders and eventually rebelling and attempting to form their own empire/nation only to fall in a matter of years and the Gauls...

So imperial-era Rome has long been a gap in my knowledge, and I've been listening to Mike Duncan's fantastic History of Rome podcast to acquaint myself with the era in broad strokes. Having reached the era of Diocletian, though, I can't help but think that a great deal of bloodshed might have...

This short documentary shows the campaigns of Germanicus inside Germania after Teuteburg, and teached me very interesting things, like how the Romans even found the place of the battle and buried the roman soldiers, while taking back as much spoils they could and even recovered the eagle of one...

If the senatorial people that Mark Antony and Octavian were fighting managed to defeat them and restore the republic fully. Perhaps they pass some reforms that strengthen the Republic and make it less susceptible to civil war and dictators?

So, it's well known that Julius Caesar died just before his planned invasion of Parthia. There's argument over just how ambitious this invasion was, such as whether he planned to conquer Parthia, Scythia, Dacia, and cap off with Germania before returning back to Rome, but let's assume that he...

Nation: Imperium Romanorum Year: 640 Anno Domini Imperator: Flavius Heracles Augustus [ADM:8/DIP:7/MAR:9] Heir: Constantine III (26 Years) [ADM:2/DIP:9/MAR:7); Heraklonas (14 Years) [ADM:6/DIP:2/MAR:10] Population: 15,000,000 Imperial Provinces [For province and name references] Yes. I am...