trajan

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...

New user who has looked through the old threads on Rome wanks and I was wondering if this is an unexplored idea for ensuring Roman and Han dominance for another century. Effectively the silk road would be without middle men aside from client states within Parthia, Chorasmia and Sogdia which...

Okay, let's pretend that Justinian chose to not conquer the west for whatever reason that is (anti-barbarian sentiment, I don't know) and focus in the eastern border with Persia. The effects of the plague are less worse than OTL and the empire was able to survive the arabic conquests (but the...

I am currently working on a Roman timeline with POD during Trajans Parthian campaign, and I'm writing with a pseudo-academic narration. I find myself in need of people who can act as TTL's historians and be sources for my narrator. Seeing as I'm replacing Hadrian with someone else, it doesn't...

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...

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...

On eastern shores – A Roman Timeline A reboot of Optimus Princeps ===== The timelines that I've done (or better: that I've aborted) so far were all centered around ancient Rome. My first one dealt with Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus, my second one with the emperor Trajan, my third one with a...