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Macrinus become Emperor in 217 and unfortunately had a very short reign. His goal seems to have been a return to Septimius Severus-era policies and he was left in a difficult situation due to Caracalla's reign. When one takes into account his humble origins, he comes across a compotent...

Let say that Alaric I, King of Visigoths and a man usually assosiated with Sack of Rome in 410. Instead of dying the same year, is able to recover from his illness and lives for at least few more years. So, Visigoths have their most well known ruler leading them longer, and man blamed by Romans...

I've been working on a map series for the last month or so. I was very inspired by @KillEmAll1989 's excellent Gothic Empire timeline, which I personally think is the best timeline ive read in a bit. Overall the main POD was originally a semi-surviving Carthaginian Empire, but I realized a...

The histories of Rome and Greece have always intertwined closely with one another, with Roman armies conquering Greek states while Greek philosophy and culture was conquering Rome. There have been plenty of opportunities for one Greek polity or another to take over more and more of Italy...

what if Simon bar Kokhba revolt succeeded with guerrilla warfare , ambushing the romans and parthian support ? how would this affect jewish history

What if Paul became senator ? Since he was a Roman citizen How would this affect the spread of Christianity ?

What if jesus became senator ? Lawyer-politician-senator How would this affect the spread of Christianity?

Please answer the follow up questions and like and share Alexander doesn't die and lives to 80s like Ptolemy He conquers Arabia He conquers North India Chandragupta Maurya doesn't rise since he created his first army from power vacuum created by death of Alexander in his indian provinces Nanda...

1. Rome loses the cimbrian war 2. Rome to loses an Analogue to the Social war and collapses leaving rump states and Italia. 3. Mithradates dominates Anatolia ( not needed but in my view it is rather likely ) 4. How plausible is it and what is the best way to achieve it? 5. I plan to do this TL...

By 1006 AUC, the Military Anarchy was in full swing. Trebonianus Gallus and his son Volusianus had been co-emperors for two years. Their reign had not been an easy one. Not only were Goths attacking along the Danube and Asia Minor, but the Persians had also invaded in the east, capturing Antioch...

Obviously as the location of the city of Rome, empires claiming to be successors of the empire have tried to retake the city itself. The Byzantines were able to reclaim the peninsula temporarily but lost it to the Lombards and the Pope after separating the church ruled the city for centuries...

Golden Blood “For our history now descends from a kingdom of gold to one of iron and rust” - Cassius Dio...

Managing to attain the office of consul five times, four of them back to back (by the time of these battles), as a Novus Homo no less, shows extreme ambition, drive, popularity, and probably ruthlessness. By this time Gaius Marius had formalized and almost institutionalized the decades-long...

Historiae Romae ----------------------------------------------------------------- The Roman History By Marcus Fabius Quintilianus Translated by Publius Decius Albinus, on behalf of the Imperial University in Roma The city of Roma, c. 727 Contents Introduction Preface Usage guidelines Thank...

Between 1859 and 1861, the Kingdom of Sardinia embarked on a conquest of the Italian peninsula. While they were able to unify most of the peninsula and declare the Kingdom of Italy, they were initially unsuccessful in capturing the city of Rome, which was controlled by the Pope himself, with...

Stronger Essences of the Old World An Antique Late Antiquity ATTENTION, probably it will have bad grammar and orthography. I am still learning English. Also this is my first TL! The Legendary Restoration of Gens Mamilia As the year 258 AUC aproaches, later would be renamed as 496 BC. What...

Kanishka the Great, ruler of the Kushan Empire, oversaw the realm's greatest expansion during the first half of the 2nd century CE. He secured the entirety of the Indus Valley and expanded across northern India perhaps a far as Pataliputra on the Ganges. At the beginning of his reign his...

RES · GESTÆ · IMPERATORVM LIBRI Book I: Caesar Augustus (Lost) Book II: Lucius Book III: Tiberius Book IV: Flavian Book V: Lucius [II] Flavius Book VI: Aurelian Book VII: Tiberius [II] Aurelius More to come later Preface Before I recount to you the lives and the...

Otl, after the roman empire was split, the east quickly became more wealthy and more centralized- exactly its downfall as it was seen as a bigger prize. Between the endless barbarian incursions (very near most of their homelands in the carpathian and black sea regions), the persians, and...

It was reported by Tacitus that Tiberius's death came, after a bout of unconsciousness, in the form of being smothered with cloth by Macro, the prefect of the Guard. Cassius Dio in addition states that Caligula was complicit in this act. What if this attempt on his life failed? I assume that...