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As we most people know, the Gaulish king Brennus sacked Rome in the year (339 BCE*). Brennus so thoroughly destroyed the city and sold nearly 30% of its citizens into slavery. Italia, as it was called, would never recover and would only be split between the Cisalpine Gauls and the Phoenicians from Sicily.



Some people have written this counterfactual positing that if Brennus had only sacked Rome and not put it to flames, that it might be the center of a great independent Empire rather than merely the Western frontier of the Greeks.

Too unlikely for me, Italia was always the Western frontier of civilization. However, the Roman language called Latin I believe just seems like a Hellenized Italic tongue, so maybe the Romans weren't really civilized, merely just copycats of better people.
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