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What are the most likely sites for a Eastern Roman capital which would be a suitable enough alternative had Byzantium, for any non-ASB reason, had not be chosen? Likewise, what could be a plausible reason for Constantine I not founding Constantinople?

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Colonia Agrippina, January 14th, 139 Quintus Lollius Urbicus was an anxious man, not necessarily a bad trait for a Roman governor on the Rhine. The new Emperor Antoninus had been impressed with Urbicus's governorship of Germania, enough so that he'd been given quite the reward. In just a few...

So, according to Wikipedia, rice farming reached quite a long way, to the point of reaching Persia, (apparently in the region of Parthia) in the fourth century BC,and maybe even Anatolia in the early centuries AD. There is also a species of Dandelion known as the Kazakh Dandelion which is...

From “A History of the Apostolic Church” by Afshin Khorami While it was during the ministry of Jesus that Christianity was born, it was after His death that the young Christian community began to truly grow into something of its own. Simply due to its origins in Judea, most of the early...

So the Cimbrian War panicked the Romans quite a bit. Some time before 113 BC a group of German tribes including the eponymous Cimbri migrated out of their homeland in Denmark and northern Germany, beginning a trek down to the Danube area. Panicked Roman allies in the area sent to Rome for help...

A simple question, why exactly was Mesopotamia such a difficult region for the Roman's to keep hold of that when it actually was annexed, control only lasted two years. The Romans would reastiblish the province again under Septimius Severus, but only to the Khabur river, and since then, not even...

I'm not a specialist of Roman history but I've sometimes wonder if it would be plausible for Rome to have expanded into Africa rather than in Europe. Right now, I can see two possible PODs for this: Caesar isn't assassinated and eventually officially acknowledges Caesarion, who succeeds his...

I had been thinking about the 210 Reasons for the decline of the Roman Empire: an historian had, as a joke, collected into one list everything which had been claimed to be a reason for the fall of the Roman Empire. It ended up quite a list containing the likes of Lead Poisoning, Tristesse, Villa...

First we shall look at how exactly to neuter Rome. For this scenario, I will go with a Punic victory in the 2nd Punic War. What is the best way to have Carthage win in a way that neuters Rome, limiting them to the Italian Peninsula indefinitely? What does a post-defeat Rome look like? How might...

Basically what I'm wondering is what the future holds for Rome in a world where Carthage won the Second Punic War. I doubt Carthage would do anything as drastic as conquer all of Rome. They'd probably just take back Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica. So after a Roman humiliation, what would happen...

Roman Republic was a direct democracy. Legislation could only be voted by the general public. The votes could only be cast in Rome's pomerium. This caused a concentration of power in to those rich enough to travel to Rome to vote. This led to the fall of the Republic What if Rome people in...

This alternate history is intended to be a combination of alternate history and hallucinatory images of impossible worlds. As such, it will not focus on detailing of traditional facts, but shall give its account through participants in history who might or might not have been real. It shall keep...

The Roman Republic fell because of the Marian reforms which abolished the militia system of soldiers equiping themselves who loyal to the Republic and replaced them with soldiers recruited by the generals transferring the army's loyalty to the generals who used it to take power away from the...

When thinking about the profound Greek influence on Slavs, it came to my mind that strong Latin marks on Slavic culture would also have a fine appearance. We saw plenty of fusions of great cultures on the Eurasian homeland, and it was never boring. But due to a one-hundred-year time range...

As in the actual history, Mark Antony, right hand man to Ceaser, had been strategically stopped outside the temple at the time of the assassination. Being pulled aside, he was not around when Ceaser went only to learn after the deed was done that his friend was killed. He thus would flee the...

So, I'm thinking about a scenario in which the Roman Empire has less of a trade deficit with China. You see, I've always thought about what is it that Europe (Roman and post-Age of Discoveries) has that could be desirable to the Chinese. First, I think that a more direct trade route with...

When the last Nabataean king Rabbel II Soter died his kingdom was annexed. How and why the Nabataean kingdom was annexed is unclear, but there is evidence of minor military skirmishes. Aside from that there wasn't much resistance to the annexation. The Romans initially did not want to govern...

This scenario is hypothetical: What if the United States system was based on the Roman Republican? Let's say the American founders are enamored by every part of Roman culture and construct a nation based on Rome. First to make it easier for this new America let's assume they never wrote any...

Revisiting a past idea I had floated , I am intrigued by just how "Roman" the founders of the u.s tried to make it . What if the Founders had gone in fully wit their Roman fanfare and also paranoia of centralised authority, and adopted a more decentralised system. Here's my timeline: The...