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Lately I have been researching the Western Roman Empire and I have been making a mapgame of the usurpation of Magnus Maximus and I have asked myself the following question: What would have happened if the destinies of the West and East were reversed? that is, the Western Roman Empire manages to...

The resurgence of Roman power under the reign of Justinian and the military efforts of Belasarius was an impressive feat, and for a time restored Roman power in the West. Yet what would have happened if these military campaigns never occured? For an opportune point of divergence, let's say that...

In all of history, there has only ever been one succesful slave rebellion, in Haiti. What would the effects of a succesful slave rebellino 2000 years earlier be? Could the slaves have ever succesfully kicked the Romans out of Sicily? If they had, what would happen? What sort of society would...

Rome is snuffed out in its infancy https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/the-eternal-flame-dies-out-rome-loses-the-siege-of-veii.308105/page-3#post-8816428 https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/the-wars-of-the-greeks-or-the-hellenistic-age-uninterrupted.434222/...

Pseudo-Marius, as the posthumous nickname indicates, was a man who claimed to be the grandson of the famous Roman Gaius Marius. He was active during the dictatorship of Julius Caesar and in the immediate aftermath, where he was executed by Antony. Pseudo-Marius attempted to position himself as...

It seems that Emperor Maurice had plans to divide the Empire between his sons. The most common consensus about this scheme is that it would be a return to the division of the East and West rather than a new tetrarchic system where it would be split among all his sons. Supposing that Emperor...

Okay, I know this topic was discussed several times, but I would like to start a new one because I came here relatively new. Basically, after the POD of 3rd century, I am wondering how to make China collapsed, broken into multiple countries, and never to reunite after invasion of barbarians...

What is the latest possible PoD for some form of Egyptian religion to be restored/founded (in Egypt, of course)? It must be an Egyptian religion involving worship of at least one native Egyptian deity IE Ra, Set, Isis, Osiris, etc, not a syncretic religion like Hellenism and not a composite...

Suppose Pilate decided that the Jesus Christ problem was too big of a problem for him(not likely but not ASB) to decide and instead sent Jesus to his superiors in Rome where they confirmed the decision to kill him, how would that impact Christianity and the impact on politics? Rome is likely to...

In the Late Roman period, Christianity was a fast growing force, the rough number of Christian converts increasing at exponetial rates from its rough founding during the reign of Tiberius until Christians were the majority in or around 350 AD. At the same time, as has been well hashed out, here...

So in this timeline, Aurelian survives the assassination attempt by some of his officers. Executing those responsible, he launches campaigns in Germania but is killed a year in by a plague. Aurelian is succeeded by Tacitus, who finished the wars of his predecessor but was killed in a battle...

The Second Triumvirate is quite famous. Octavian, Mark Antony and Lepidus divided control of the Roman Republic among themselves. Mark Antony got the East, where he would live and eventually become involved with Cleopatra and her family. But it is also known that the power of the Triumvirate...

By win, I don't mean march to Rome like Hannibal did. At this point, though economically prosperous and militarily recovering, Carthage had no ability to do that anymore without a land link through Iberia and due to the Numidians. What I mean by 'win' is repel all Roman invasions of Africa...

From “History of the Apostolic Church” by Afshin Khorrami Even after the death(and some say resurrection) of that certain man from Nazareth, the young religion of Christianity continued to gain new members in spite of official persecution. The young church ran into increasing issues with its...

IOTL, after the Exarchate of Ravenna fell to the Lombards, the Pope turned away from Constantinople as his traditional protector, and looked to the Franks for aid. Following Frankish intervention, the territories of the Exarchate of Ravenna were restored, but not given to the Exarch as the first...

Do not take this timeline as something really serious, this is just a project to check how good can I simulate realistic alternate history scenarios, and doing them in a Wikipedia-Biographic format. Also a review on my grammar and my imagination. Still I hope you enjoy...

Historically Rome had no problem with slavery, and I would argue that it was a major driver of Late Republican expansion, as well as later Republican instability. What if that was not the case? I don't think the reason really matters, maybe instead of Geese warning Rome, it's a Slave (Supplicia...

Your chalenge, with a POD not earlier than the fall of the WRE, is to have a state with this borders in AD 2022. Bonus point if there is a common lenguage spoken by the vast majority of the population.

if Gauls destroy Rome from existence in 390 BCE would Seleucid civil wars still happen lead to their conquest by parthians?

Hey everyone! I’m a longtime lurker on the forum, and I just wanted to gauge interest for a new project I’ve been working on lately: Ides to Ashes. The basic premise is that Julius Caesar avoids his infamous assassination, allowing him to accomplish most of his planned goals before his death...