roman

You can choose any POD from the founding of Rome to the fall of the western empire. Is a surviving Rome with no core territories outside of Europe too unrealistic? What polities could arise to ensure Rome is confined to these territories? Could any political, cultural, or religious beliefs...

This scenario is inspired by this article. Long ago, it was thought that this super-cool, extra strong material called carbon nanotubes is a recent invention. After all, what ancient culture could have thought up of something as complex and complicated as a piece of metal as thin as an atom...

Furor Celticus: a Gallic TL Gaul united, forming a single nation, animated by a single spirit, can defy the Universe. - Memorial of Vercingetorix (1) ** Introduction: Strange Men from Strange Lands Gaul is a rich and conflicted land. Rich, from its fertile grounds, thick forests, and...

Why did Barbarian conquorers adopt the languages of the peoples they conquered in the former Roman empire? What could lead to Romans adopting barbarian languages? What barbarian languages that were subsumed in favor of a Latin or other pre migration era language, had the highest liklihood of...

The Dacian Wars (80's-100's AD) were one of the many wars, famous or obscure, fought by the romans in their drive for expansion. These in particular were fought against the Dacian tribes of modern-day Romania, led by the king Decebalus. As Domitian's reign followed through, Decebalus amassed a...

So, i once posted a thread about Roman emperor Licinius managing to defeat and kill Constantine at the Battle of Cibalae (314 AD), causing him to gain control of the whole empire and ultimately emerge victorious from the Civil Wars of the Tetrarchy. But, i'll posit another question for now...

What if Roman emperor Constantius III had lived beyond 421 AD, and managed to be recognized as emperor of both West and East? How much of the barbarian invasions could he stave off? Could Genseric's rise as warlord in North Africa be avoided? Would Constantius attempt to re-garrison Britain...

The Roman Empire of OTL is generally considered to have passed through two phases: the Principate and the Dominate. The former was (with a few exceptions) marked by a system of cooperation between the emperor and the senatorial elites. The emperor was mostly relegeated to military duties, and...

A mostly self-explanatory title. If the Roman emperor Aurelian is not assassinated on his way to a campaign against Persia in 271 AD (CORRECTION: 275 AD), completes such campaign, and luckily dies on his deathbed, who will he pick as his successor? It seems to me that the option pool was narrow...

The Decapolis (Greek: Δεκάπολις Dekápolis, Ten Cities) was a group of ten cities on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire in the southeastern Levant. The cities were grouped together because of their language, culture, location, and political status, with each functioning as an autonomous...

So, assume that the Roman "barracks emperors" are even less competent at defending the empire from the Germanics, Persians, and other usurpers, and the whole thing collapses into multiple squabbling states sometime around the 270's AD. One of the Germanic tribes, led by their king, estabilishes...

Domitian (51-96 AD), from the Flavian dynasty, was Roman Emperor from 81 AD till his assassination and replacement by Nerva fifteen years later. His reign was marked by two large military campaigns against Caledonia (modern Scotland) and Dacia, both of which did not yield satisfactory results, a...

Justinian the Great was one of the most controversial Roman Emperors.You either love or hate the guy.He spent his entire reign fighting against the Persians to the east,enjoying spectacular success.Large new territories were gained in east where the empire would permanently hold.On the other...

Flavius Crispus was the eldest son of Roman emperor Constantine I, born sometime around 300 AD. He had a good military career in Gaul and against Licinius, former friend of Constantine who later turned into an enemy, in the East. He seemed like a promising figure and potential successor to...

The Makedon empire, or Basileía Rhōmaíōn as it was called at the time is one of the sucessor states of the Roman empire, that splitted from the Byzantine empire in the 700s under the macedonian general Alexandros Angelius (later known as the Alexander the great, not to confuse with the first...

IOTL, Quintus Labienus, son of pro-Caesarian general Titus Labienus, was a rogue general who opposed the Second Triumvirate (42-31 BCE). He estabilished an alliance with Parthia and raided the Roman Oriental provinces, mainly Syria. He was defeated by Marc Antony’ forces in a battle somewhere...

If any province(s) or diocese in the Roman Empire became the center of a new Roman empire (like the Byzantine Empire) ruled by a Roman usurper but "going native" or developing into its own tradition, which province would lead to the most interesting result, and why? If you're thinking of a...

In OTL the roman empire hardly could be called a monarchy, as their rulers usually fell to coups or to assassinations that resulted on a general or politician rising to power with their own clique to become the next emperor, and this was also true to the pre Makedon dynasty byzantine empire, and...

What if the Roman Republic lost most of the key battles of the Cimbrian War (maybe through Gaius Marius dying in his fight against Jugurtha of Numidia), in the late 2nd century BCE? What would happen next? Could the Cimbri and the Teutones invade the italian peninsula and sack Rome? Could they...

The ERE/Byzantine army under the Macedonians reached a size of 200,000 soldiers.While its’ understandable that the empire’s ability to raise armies would be impaired by the erosion of the theme system and the loss of territories,much of the land still retained by the Turks following Alexios and...