Gaius Julius Magnus
Gone Fishin'
So I plan on creating my own Rome survives timeline down the line and here's a map that I plan on having the world eventually look like. I would like to hear some thoughts or suggestions of what to do.
I was think of Caesae living on or Commudus not becoming EmpeororTBH, that's not very plausible, if not completely impossible. You'll want to scale down on those empires and ignore the new world at the very least before we move on. Super spacefilling empires a la 1984 just aren't going to happen with a Roman age POD. Or with almost any POD.
What's your thought for a POD? I guess that would be the first place to start - is your idea along the lines of Caesar not being assassinated? Is it around Rome's height, like during the Five Good Emperors period? Or is it towards the end of the empire, like around Constantine and Julian the Apostate's time? Or even past that period? From there, more thought can be put into how to get Rome to reach your European and Asian borders - or at least to get as close to those as possible, because neither would be very easy to do.
I was think of Caesae living on or Commudus not becoming Empeoror
Here's what is hopefully a better map
Word of advice.
Story first, maps later.
No this is for something elseDon't tell me this was the planned future of 'Great War for Antiquity'.
I'd be interested in seeing how you evolve the story, certainly. However Rome survives, I'm assuming as a Latin-speaking empire, coherent enough that someone from the OTL Normandy area can understand without much difficulty, a person from Carthage or OTL Romania.
As for territory, I'd amend your map, due to the likelihood of Vikings still happening, giving portions of England, Scotland, Ireland (similar to the Danelaw of OTL) to the Norse, along with the Newfoundland/Labrador region, and get rid of the 49° parallel, as that's not too likely to happen this timeline. Goths, Burgundians, Vandals I could see being set up as clients allowed to keep their language in Iberia and North Africa, and in Germania. Slavs will probably still set up their own kingdom, which might fragment at some point in time, and change shape. The middle east, if Rome survives, I think would stay Christian and butterfly away Islam, and keep whatever pre-Islam religions were in Arabia at the time. Africa would possibly be a series of kingdoms, not just space-filling empires, based on tribes, or whenever Rome gets to them to divy them up into provinces.
I would agree with a prior post that the Romans would likely, if they get to the New World, would devastate the natives much like OTL, and enslave them, and after a while, allow citizenship, and client-state status at some point. My Roman history is not 100% perfect, but I think fringe states are more likely to break from Rome in Europe.
Good luck on writing the story, and I hope you enjoy creating it as well!