roman empire

The challenge is to have the Goths conquer Roman Egypt. Hard mode: make it last.

With a POD no earlier than Constantine's conversion, how can the Romance and Greek languages be subsumed and replaced by other languages to the maximum extent possible? How can Roman titles and institutions, and architecture, be forgotten, replaced, or minimized? This should be mostly...

Could the rise of Rome have occurred much earlier than OTL? If Rome became independent from the Etruscans earlier, and started waging campaigns of expansion 100, 200 years earlier, could they have obtained a sort of dominance over the Mediterranean Basin that they enjoyed under Emperor Augustus...

Inspired by my doing a little reading on Lest Darkness Fall. How possible is it for the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy to avoid its decline and eventual fall to the Byzantine Empire, and to indeed expand, perhaps taking North Africa west of Egypt, all or part of Hispania, and all or part of Gaul...

With a POD after 395, create a scenario where the Western Roman Empire largely weathers the 5th century while the Eastern Roman Empire falls in the 5th century. What PODs could reverse the fates of the two Roman Empires? What would the impact of a "reverse Fall of Rome" so to speak would be?

The territory of the Roman Province of Dacia (roughly present-day Romania) is located in an unusually resource-rich geographical area, with large deposits of metals and salt, and most importantly the Ploiești Oil Fields, from which oil is still easy to extract because of the deposit's proximity...

If we exclude the Roman or Byzantine Empires, which other historical country has best claim to being the successor of the Roman Empire? Options (multiple choice allowed) Russian Empire (By inheriting the religion of the Byzantine Empire and intermarrying into its ruling dynasty, as well as...

Suppose that Emperor Constantine is killed during his civil war with Maxentius, either during the battle of Milvian Bridge or perhaps earlier. Thus, there is no vision of the Cross, no Damascene conversion, and when all is said and done, Maxentius wears the Roman laurels. While there is an...

So a friend of mine linked me an image since they're aware of my love of women in practical armor, but the moment I saw the picture, my mind started picking it apart. After several rather pedantic discussion points - Why would a centurion be using a spear? That's an auxiliary weapon! Where's the...

Back when I researching religions, I read about Manichaeism, a rather fascinating religious movement that combined eastern and western ways of thinking along with it being a gnostic tradition, which is rarely seen in the mainstream West. However, what really grabbed my attention was that it was...

The Foederati idea of the Roman Empire generally had 2 outcomes - the Foederati romanised or they became an elite class above a Roman peasantry. How possible is it to get something in between? Where there are 2 coexisting types of Imperial citizen - e.g. Roman and Goth - who have specific roles...

This is a continuation of a small discussion on the Reverse the Fates of Rome and China thread. For background: What if: The Caliphate failed to conquer Persia or Mesopotamia; focusing the energies of Islamic armies and Arab settlement to the extant or former areas of the Roman Empire. The...

Was it possible that the Sassanids could have conquered the Roman East the same way they did (temporarily) in the 7th century by exploiting the civil war?They were able to wipe out Valerian’s army,but were ultimately defeated by Odenathus,but could they have gone further?

The Pony Express was very short lived but probably the most "optimized" horse relay system despite the creation of horse relay systems by many different empires in the past. The Pony Express, which was able to send messages 1,900 miles (3,100 km) in 10 days, seems to have been the most effective...

The Constitutio Antoniniana, issued by emperor Caracalla in 212 AD and frequently known, thus, as the "Edict of Caracalla", was an imperial edict which granted citizenship to all subjects contemporaneously living in the Roman Empire. The reasons as to why Caracalla issued this edict are still...

(I already made a thread on the Battle of The Catalaunian Plains a few months ago, but i think it's already too old to be bumped.) What if Attila, The Hun, had managed to defeat Flavius Aetius and his germanic foederati allies at the Catalaunian Plains in 451 AD? Would this spill an earlier end...

In OTL Rome adopted Christianity as its religion, however, is it possible that the Romans convert to another religion?

I made a thread about this a few months ago, but i'd like to reiterate. What if roman augustus Licinius had managed to defeat his brother-in-law Constantine sometime around the 310's? What are the effects on... The administration of the Roman Empire? How will Licinius decide to divide the...

So, suppose that Marcus Antonius (anglicized as Mark Antony) is successful in defeating Octavian, be it at the Battle of Actium or an alternate major battle between both. MA ends up in charge of Rome. What title will he assume? Imperator, like Octavian? Dictator Pro Vita? Pontifex Maximus, if...

Most of the discussions about a reverse outcome at Milvian Bridge i see here often focus on the development of christianity as a religion. But, here, i'll like to ask: what are the effects of an absent constantinian restoration on the Roman Empire as a whole? How would the empire be divided...