Essentially, what would the world look like if Rome either never became powerful or was destroyed before its rise to power? Which tribes/nations would fill the power vacuum without a Roman Republic/Empire?
Essentially, what would the world look like if Rome either never became powerful or was destroyed before its rise to power? Which tribes/nations would fill the power vacuum without a Roman Republic/Empire?
Rome was such an important part of the history of the Old World (Europe, Africa and Asia) that speculation on what the world would have looked like without it would be almost necessarily groundless. If only because it was the entity that spread the Abrahamic religions to such an extent that they would become dominant in most of the known world.
Without Rome, Christianity is a minor cult and Islam likely does not develop in any recognizable fashion.