AT-rome falls apart year 300

make the roman empire fall apart by year 300 or sooner

use colapsing social sistem, economic catastrofy, losing wars, civil wars beveen throne contenders, secesion of provinces, tetrarchy, infertility and desease, logistic problems, social upheval, uprisings, anithing you like realy, you dont ewen have to invent things, take things out of OTL, just make it fall, as in colapse, or at least split up into more than three states
 
The crisis of the 3rd century doesn't get resolved. The Gallic and Palmyrene Empires stay split off, viola, three Roman states just waiting to get ripped to shreds by civil strife and barbarians.
 
You know, i've heard Gaulish was spoken well into the 500s.
Massive peasant revolt decapitates the latin elite, and you could have Gaul speaking a mix of welsh and latin, or at least heavily Gaulish accented latin [which sounds nothing like French a few centuries later].

Here's an idea; a cult involving human sacrifice, based on Punic religion [or what the romans said about it], springs up among rich sadists around Massilia. They are found out and major drama ensues, and the cult grows more popular as a result of the publicity. Is eventually stamped out by zealous christians, setting an early precedent for holy war.
 
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