roman empire

So during the Principate would it have been feasible or economical for the province of Britannia to be divided either during the completion of the Antonine wall (or an analogous wall in the same location if Hadrian felt a bit bolder than OTL or someone else got the throne?). I'm thinking the...

So i have been working on this timelime for some time now. it is not finished, and i would like to get feedback. i forgot exact years and details, iv'e got that writen somewhere, but here is the basic things: the picts unite and become maritime, colonizing the north sea shore. rome does not...

First off, I should admit some bias. As a student of comparative government, I am of the mind that any country, regardless of all the inherent complexities therein, can be governed effectively and survive in the long term provided it has all the necessary institutions (except in the case of...

Rome-wank seems to be hard-wired into history, at least according to quite a few on this discussion board. No one could fight like the Romans, no one could take losses like the Romans, no one could conquer and govern like the Romans, etc. While the concept of another country conquering and...

Following the Crossing of the Rhine in 406 AD by a mixed group of barbarians into the Roman Empire, there was a period of instability as northern Gaul succumbed to chaos and pillaging by the barbarians. This in turn caused the rise of three usurpers in Britannia. It also didn't help that the...

There was no need for locks since the Mediterranean and the Red Sea are level, so if an Emperor like Augustus or Trajan ordered one built and had 20,000 men put to work on it, it would be finished eventually wouldn't it, even if it fell to one of their successors to finish it? This analysis I...

The challenge is this: make Aachen (also know as Aquisgrana in latin) the capital of the Roman Empire (not the Carolingian Empire). Being capital of the WRE is permitted. Also, what are the effects?

The ottomans claimed italy as part of their empire, as claimed successor of the roman empire. How could they make that claim an effective reality? Edit: ups, wrong forum, could @CalBear move this to the before 1900, please?

In this thread, we pick any country in the world and explain how it is the true successor of the Roman Empire For example: England is the true successor of the Roman Empire, because England's heir apparent or Caesar as the Byzantines would say, is the Prince of Wales, and Wales includes...

It's pretty well understood by scholars that modern Judaism and Christianity both emerged from the same sectarian theological-political mess that was 2nd Temple Judaism under Roman occupation. Both come from the same roots. And in different ways, both were heavily influenced by Hellenistic and...

I have been reading a bit on ancient Greece recently and I thought about what would happen if the Persians managed to conquer ancient Greece. I thought about how this would effect the expansion of the roman empire considering the attempt to conquer Greece occurred the same period as roman...

With any POD after 100 AD make sure the Roman Empire in the year 2018 AD holds at least 70% of the lands it held in 100 AD.

I've been reading Edward Luttwak's, "The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire," and it's gotten me thinking about possible ways to reform the Roman army during the early empire in ways that will mitigate the perennial civil wars that plagued the empire for its entire existence. It's difficult to...

There's a general consensus on which Roman emperors were "good" or "bad", but which emperors get too much credit, and which emperors don't get enough? I'll go ahead and get us started. Most Overrated Emperor: Trajan He obviously gets a lot of credit for being at the helm when the Empire...

Even Tacitus was pretty pessimistic about the Roman Empire's survival during the Year of the 4 Enperors. So, what if the empire tears itself to pieces? What are the likely splits that would occur? Is this even plausible? And would anyone be able to put a Humpty Dumpty Roman empire back together?

I'm currently reading a book titled "The Formation of Christendom" by Judith Herrin and in it she describes how in the 660s (East) Roman Emperor Constans II, father of Constantine IV, chose Syracuse as his imperial residence and even considered making it the formal capital of the Empire (pp...

The Romans had superior men and more experienced forces (Roman-Persian Wars). What if the Roman forced annihilated the Rashidun forces at Yarmouk. Would they be able to mount an invasion of Arabia?

Ok guyz what I would like to do here is to make a list of technologies that were somehow lost during history and to discuss about the impact that they could have had if the were implied further The first technologies that come to my mind are Greek fire and Roman concrete, but I'm sure that there...

Hello guys, today I want you to think about the likelihood and the consequences of some kind of union between the eastern Roman empire and the holy Roman empire, precisely I'm thinking about a unification between the 9th and 11th century. How would this new empire look like?

An unapologetic imperial Rome-wank. Mistakes and issues will be found aplenty since I am no expert in ancient history whatsoever. All constructive criticism and debate is welcomed. My sincere thanks to other similar timelines that have inspired me.