roman empire

With a pod from the reign of King George III who was a very active monarch till around the 1890's British Empire how can the Crown retake power from Parliament and unofficially sideline the parliament into a rubber stamp like how the French Kings (Louis XIV) did it and Augustus sidelining the...

This is going to have huge butterflies. What if the Roman Empire never existed and there is only a Roman Republic confined to the Italian peninsula and nearby islands? What might the future of culture, history, science, society be like? What might Europe be like?

In 363, the Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate attempted to rebuild the Jewish Temple, likely at least partially as part of his efforts to reverse Constantine's Christianization campaign. However, the outbreak of fires forced the project's cancellation, and Christianity reasserted control over...

The fall of Constantinople is often considered to be one of the biggest blows to Christendom in history. However, the remaining Christian Kingdoms did not attempt to reclaim the ancient city. What if the Pope decided to declare a crusade to reclaim the Balkans and Anatolia around 1470 against...

Sorry wrong thread i dont know how to delete this. I'm putting another one in the proper place

The rise and fall of the Gauls and the Gallic empire was a rather interesting piece of European history. Native Celts in modern day France trying to fend off Roman invaders and eventually rebelling and attempting to form their own empire/nation only to fall in a matter of years and the Gauls...

So imperial-era Rome has long been a gap in my knowledge, and I've been listening to Mike Duncan's fantastic History of Rome podcast to acquaint myself with the era in broad strokes. Having reached the era of Diocletian, though, I can't help but think that a great deal of bloodshed might have...

This short documentary shows the campaigns of Germanicus inside Germania after Teuteburg, and teached me very interesting things, like how the Romans even found the place of the battle and buried the roman soldiers, while taking back as much spoils they could and even recovered the eagle of one...

If the senatorial people that Mark Antony and Octavian were fighting managed to defeat them and restore the republic fully. Perhaps they pass some reforms that strengthen the Republic and make it less susceptible to civil war and dictators?

So, it's well known that Julius Caesar died just before his planned invasion of Parthia. There's argument over just how ambitious this invasion was, such as whether he planned to conquer Parthia, Scythia, Dacia, and cap off with Germania before returning back to Rome, but let's assume that he...

Nation: Imperium Romanorum Year: 640 Anno Domini Imperator: Flavius Heracles Augustus [ADM:8/DIP:7/MAR:9] Heir: Constantine III (26 Years) [ADM:2/DIP:9/MAR:7); Heraklonas (14 Years) [ADM:6/DIP:2/MAR:10] Population: 15,000,000 Imperial Provinces [For province and name references] Yes. I am...

This is a new TL on the darling of the alternate history community: Romanía/Byzantium! Rest assured that this will be a good one, if extensive and filled with many divergences, some small and others not so much. I will look forward to starting this very soon. For now, some maps.

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?