no roman empire

Say Israel was occupied by a different empire that didn't practice crucifixion (Persians maybe? But that's another discussion entirely). Jesus still gets born regardless and the pharisees still want him dead. How would Christian iconography change if Jesus was sawed instead; and could this...

The Nicean Empire was the root of western civilization. Based in southern France around the Greek colony of Nicaea, it was able to expand into covering much of the Mediterranean and western Europe. The celto-greek bedrock shaped countries like England, Germany, and Hispanya, etc even before the...