Greater Roman Empire

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Well people wanted a map of Rome so here it is. Note: the Sepositarchs of in North and South America are composed of colonies scattered throughout the continent. The land is not totally under Roman control, it is more over under control of the native americans. The Vastness of Sarmatia makes it impossible to have it under complete control of Rome. The Northern islands of Hyperborea (Svalbard),Solis (Nova Zemlya) Novia (Franz Josef Land), Sursumia (Severnaya Zemlya) , and Terroria (New Siberian Islands) are held by a no more than a few hundred Roman colonists.
 
The Push

308 CE
The Great Wall of Serica is heavily fortified with Xiongnu and Chinese auxilaries to hold against the the Xianbei. The Praeses of Serica named Ioannes was keen to observe that the entire Xianbei tribe was descending on Serica. So he decided to fight them. The Xianbei were led by Tuoba Yilu. He demanded access to Serica for raiding. Ioannes flat out refused and sent for reinforcements from Jersusalem. In the Western Empire Mycaelis III was gaining much wealth and power over taxing his junior parterners. He expanded the number of legions in the Western Empire in case of a crisis. Licinius arrives on Japanese shores with a force of 4,000 Classiarii (Roman marines). They landed at Fukuoka where a Roman colony was being besieged by the Emperor Ōjin's forces. The marines formed up into legion ranks. Totaling the size of a regular legion, they made an effective fighting force. Ōjin's proto-samuari challenged individual soldiers to duals rather than fighting as a coherint unit like the Romans did. At the Second Battle of Fukuoka, Japanese soldiers were cut down by the throwing of Roman pila. Their archers were unable to penetrate the Roman teustedo. Ōjin's forces were forced to abandon their siege of the Roman colony and fled north. Licinius set out to expand the colony to accomidate his men. While these works were under place, he sailed across the sea to Korea where he called up the Korean auxilaries to fight. After much delay, Vernius's coalition of Roman and tribal forces reaches Sarmatia. His men are tired from a year on the march and demand plunder or threaten to go home. So he immeadatly begins raiding across the River Kamias using the city of Permia as their base. Vernius not only recovers portions of the loot taken from Roman Saramtia but he also captures Vund's son named Balamber. Vund at this point begged for his son back. Vernius demanded Vund return all loot taken from Rome and pay 2,000 pounds of Gold a year in tribute to Rome or 1/2 of his tribe as slaves. In the Southern Empire, Constantine led a Roman Expedition towards Great Zimbabwe. He attracted many Bantu tribesman into the Roman service as mercenaries. He arrived in Great Zimbabwe after more than 2 years of pushing south. His men began to build siege engines for the siege of the city. Fearing the sack of their city and trade industry, the Elders of Great Zimbabwe met with Constantine. Constantine offered them a deal. If they would convert to Christianity and become a client state of Rome, then he would spare the city. The elders agreed and a mass baptism took place. The Romans received many gifts from Great Zimbabwe. Constantine got enough gold and silver to pay his men and mercenaries. He founded a colony leaving men whose terms in the army had expired from service. Leaving a cohort total to watch over Great Zimbabwe he marched North along the Coast hoping to find a Roman ship to take him back to Carthago for his new triumpth.
 
Why should this be in ASB?

Why should this be in ASB. I'm reworking this entire timeline to make it morep plausible.
 
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