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Crimea isn't the most populated today, only ~2.5 million people, but it does have some possibilities. If they can conquer some of Ukraine they'll have some very rich soil, and depending on the tech advances such as a heavy plough might even be able to take advantage of it. I don't see them...

Although something to take into account as well is that the current story Roman Empire is bigger than the OTL Roman Empire before the Antonine Plague, so there should be more people anyway.

Didn't the Romans do a census? Other than the one on Senators etc. I'm pretty sure a lot of the figures for the population of Augustan Italy try and use the census of all Roman citizens from around that time, and there's a lot of debate on what exactly it included (e.g. men-only? men+women only...

During the period the North really came to dominate, Southern europe was rather fragmented wasn't it? It's a lot easier to develop and grow when the region (e.g Italy) isn't split into several different warring polities. And even then, Spain was as powerful as any European country.

I mean, are there any areas in Europe more than 100 miles from a river or sea? Europe has a lot of rivers.

Surely this will essentially shut down long distance trade? Travelling 750 km and passing through 10 pagus (pagii?) the goods would be taxed 10 times more than if they only travelled 75 km?

I've never heard of that. Mind giving me a source that that was Roman policy? It sounds interesting.

Is this tempting fate I see?

I think the legions are inherently political, they are the reason the Emperor is the Emperor. Any illusions to the contrary were dispelled when Claudius was forced to become Emperor by the legionaries who found him hiding behind a curtain. I don't think you can put that genie back in its bottle...

My point was that the population of the Roman Empire is still the subject of historical debate. Even when we have census data, there is still debate about who exactly was included in the census (All Roman male citizens? All Roman citizens including women?). Everything is an estimate from...

I wonder what the population of the empire is by this point? With new inventions increasing productivity and relative peace, I imagine it's probably a bit higher than OTL. Not that we're really certain what the OTL population was though.

A lot depends on when the invention is made. Obviously, if the invention is in 300 AD it will have less of an impact on the fate of the Roman Empire than if the invention was in 14 AD. It may make economically marginal areas less marginal, which could help with the wealth of the empire, but I'm...

The spinning wheel will not cause a Scientific or and Industrial Revolution, although it may lay some of the groundwork for the latter if it leads to cottage industry. Nor is it likely to be "banned' by Tiberius and its inventor killed. For one thing, I'm pretty sure the story this is...

I doubt a war referred to as "Great" would be an easy win for Rome...

Gaul is not a single province though, it's several (4?). Divide et Impera.

I think he's discovered cast iron maybe? I was thinking pig iron, but a quick wiki-walk informed me that pig iron was already known around the Mediterranean at this time.

Reading the link provided, the Monroe Doctrine was inconsistently applied, and never forced onto Britain. It was actually somewhat enforced by Britain, as it fit into their strategic goals and the US Navy was weak and insufficient to actually enforce any such claim at the time. I don't see it...

Could he even sell London? I thought London was Corporation, with ancient rights guaranteed by William the Conqueror? Does Richard even own it?

Sorry, I wasn't annoyed I was just confused. Coventry used to be a great industrial city, we're definitely not now though. Newcastle's metropolitan area is much bigger too.

It was bombed because it was a key industrial city, and it was still important after WW2. However this is too late a POD for the city to be second-tier IMO, Birmingham is already too big and any growth will tend to go to there instead. It's the same for a few places in the area. The POD for a...