AHC: No Age of Migrations in RE

With a POD of the establishment of the empire by Augustus, find a way to prevent the age of migrations or have it go anywhere but Rome. How does history change? could we see a Germanic Russia? A Slavic/Hunnic dynasty controlling persia?
 
With a POD of the establishment of the empire by Augustus, find a way to prevent the age of migrations or have it go anywhere but Rome. How does history change? could we see a Germanic Russia? A Slavic/Hunnic dynasty controlling persia?
One pillar is the Hunnic invasion , the other Germanic migrations. Maybe a Sino- Roman contact could leads to some butterflies.
 
Ancient Mediterranean basin, being the economical and cultural center of Europe, tended to be on the receiving end of migrations patterns since the Bronze Age up to Celts. Romania, by virtue of having unified and expanded these mediterranean cores from one hand and having projetted deeply in Barbaricum its influence (Roman military material was recently found in Poland, for instance) only increased this tendency : Cimbric-Teutonic migration is a prime example of this.
While mentioning, as @Byzantion does, the Hunnic migration, isn't wrong it's essentially the immediate cause only : settlement of Barbarians within Romania appeared before in the form of laeti and some early Rhenish foedi. The long-term causes were rather what I mentioned above, and the climatic changes of the IIIrd century that (added with the civil wars of the Empire and Sassanian pressure) greatly reduced Barbarian capacities of local subsistuance (most of the grain in Germania was imported) and turned to groups of population being on the move well before Huns appeared in Vth century Europe.

Long story short, you can't butterfly away migrations of Barbarians and formation of Barbarian peoples as Goths on the limes because it's a by-product of the Roman Empire.
 
Have them not come is a really long shot that requires something either decades, or even centuries, before or some sort of alternative to draw them off

The problem is the alternatives already happened and did draw some off - vacuum in Mesopotamia, collapse of Persia which led to the Parthians

Rome was also so big - in former times if they don't come to Gaul maybe they go to Greece, but when Rome rules all of this then it makes little difference
 
Top