With the PODs no earlier than 450 AD, have the entire regions of Mediterranean coasts be owned by one political entity, for at least a century or so...
Any takers?
Any takers?
No Justinianic Plague. POD 542, Roman reconquest of the Visigoths circa 550, allows the entire Mediterranean coastline to come back under the control of Constantinople. Done.![]()
Hmm...how about the southern coast of France...? And could a government that centered in Constantinople administering the entire Mediterranean coasts...? And could the Byzantines hold them for no less than a century...?
Southern Gaul was Visigothic anyway, only the area around Marseille was held by the Franks- and in this Romanowank scenario, I can see that falling quite quickly if invaded by forces from both Spain and Italy.
Yes, unless you get a series of extremelly stupid Emperors.
Yes, since Islam would be butterflied in such a scenario, and the Empire itself would never have been half destroyed by the Plague.
The obvious one would be an Arab capture of Constantinople in 674 (I think that is the right year), with the hope that this would break the Eastern Roman Empire once and for all. If that happened, then the Balkans and Greece would be open much earlier, during a period of flux in that part of Europe.
Then with greater success there, perhaps butterflies may allow for a more sucessful Arab sweep through modern day France
No Justinianic Plague. POD 542, Roman reconquest of the Visigoths circa 550, allows the entire Mediterranean coastline to come back under the control of Constantinople. Done.![]()
Also Only reason Rome
could comtrol so much was dueto it's central location.... Thus you idea is simply ASB![]()