roman empire

Recently I have been reading and researching about the Late Roman Empire and I have come across a character that has caught my attention, Magnus Máximo, a Spanish general who rose up in rebellion in Britannia, invading Gaul and defeating Graciano. Although a usurper, he would manage to be...

Consider these two maps of the Roman Empire in 330, plus some important info on the first three Justinian emperors. We can discern the following: The Eastern Roman Empire is a mostly Greek-speaking empire since forever (read: Alexander the Great), but its northwesternmost territory is...

Roman Empire is claimed to be around 60 million by most sources but by adding the population estimates of it's constituent regions and from estimating their population by later shares in world population it is only around 30 million

So, I've been thinking about this thing I did in a Shared Worlds project I'm doing, which is making me wonder: How would Rome be able to integrate Judaea into its Imperial system without causing three Jewish revolts and ending up enslaving large portions of Judaea, and how would this have...

Marcus Aurelius' reign was marked by hardship from beginning to end: Syria was invaded by a Parthia that got its act together (however briefly), plague ravaged the Roman Empire's population, and barbarian peoples invaded Dacia and even Italy itself, laying siege to Aquileia. What if Marcus, who...

The Battle of the Frigidus, which happened in September 394 AD, pitted the forces of Eastern Roman Empire, led by emperor Theodosius I, against those of its western half, led by emperor Eugenius and magister militum Arbogast, who was the power behind the throne. IOTL Theodosius won the battle...

Some people argue that regions like Britannia, Dacia, Germania and Mesopotamia brought instability to the empire, which was relatively safe with its borders in the Rhine, Danube and Osrhoene/Western Armenia. What do you think? Were these regions really worthy of conquest? Would the empire...

In OTL, the Romans and Sassanid Persia fought a bloody 26 year war between one another that severely weakened both powers to the Rashidun Caliphate's invasion a decade or so later. What if this OTL War doesn't happen? How does this occur and what would be the ramifications of it for all three...

The year of our lord Five Hundred and Thirty had come as a turning point for many in the world west of the Indus River [1] with the past 54 years being the main cause for what was to come. In the year 476, The King of the Goths Odoacer would depose the child Emperor Romulus Augustus, who ruled...

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...

So, i was thinking in how do you get a situation when the RE is divided, not in two, but in three parts, to have a WRE, a CRE, and a ERE. What POD would be necessary to make this happened? and what would be the historical implications to this division? Could we have a WRE that still falls, but...

challenge is to get germania unified by 200 AD from rhine to don rivers, from franks to goths edit : POD must be after Teutoburg forest but unification must be complete by 3ard century and it must coexist with Roman empire of atleast 395 borders

what if Bar Kokhba Revolt by sticking asymetrical warfare and because of Trajan's death starting a succession war in which a lot of generals try for the throne like the crisis of the third century along with most of provinces rebelling like the illyrian revolt whlie parthians, germans, picts...

If Justinian restored the Roman Empire by Reconquering the entire Mediterranean coast would there still be large scale hellenisation (assimilation into greek culture) in the Byzantine Empire like irl?

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...

From: WI Emperor Leo I declined to name Majorian as Western Roman Emperor in 457 AD? Leo I (Valerius Leo) was indeed a very influential emperor in the west. In fact, there were three instances where Leo was sole Roman emperor (461, 465-67, 472-73), and he was the one who appointed Anthemius as...

Porphrogennetos The Romans and the New World (left, Basileia Rhomaion in 976 AD) (left, Phrygia, where Tzimiskes were travelling through) On the eighth of January, 976. Emperor John I Tzimiskes, scion of a distinguished family and himself a distinguished emperor, woke up in the cold...

Back last year I made a thread questioning what would happen if the collapse of the British Empire was more analogous to the fall of the Roman one . Lately I've got back to thinking about it, and now mean to actually start planning it out. As I'm not too experienced with writing timelines like...

The sky stretched like an ocean over Damascus, deep hues of blue and purple stained pink and orange by the rising sun. The sandstone of the buildings was a muted violet, reflecting the sun. The cobblestone glistened in the light. A house, tucked away on a distant street. An oil lamp glowed...

If the Roman Empire survived to modern times, what would be the predominant language(s)? Also, is it possible for 1 language to be spoken through the entire empire?