Historiography if Constantinople fell in 1476

If Constantinople held out for another generation, and fell to the Turks in 1476, exactly a thousand years after the fall of the western empire, what impact might that have on the historiography of Rome/Byzantium?
 
If Constantinople held out for another generation, and fell to the Turks in 1476, exactly a thousand years after the fall of the western empire, what impact might that have on the historiography of Rome/Byzantium?

Virtually none... except for an amusing coincidence.

Anyway, why postpone the fall of the ERE for just twenty-three years?
 
Not much, though I admit it would be amazing if on top of that the roman republic was founded on 524 b.c. (in OTL it was in 509 b.c.), 1000 years before the fall of the WRE.

I can totally see people coming up with conspiracy theories about the romans, making up all sorts of correlation between dates, generals, emperors and etc.

Think all the theories behind the mayans, egypcians, chinese, except this time people start believing the romans received help from aliens, who gave them the architecture, political structure, military innovations they're known for. "There's no way humans could have done this alone!" sort of thing.

History channel would be a lot more interesting, that's for sure.
 
Not much, though I admit it would be amazing if on top of that the roman republic was founded on 524 b.c. (in OTL it was in 509 b.c.), 1000 years before the fall of the WRE.

I can totally see people coming up with conspiracy theories about the romans, making up all sorts of correlation between dates, generals, emperors and etc.

Think all the theories behind the mayans, egypcians, chinese, except this time people start believing the romans received help from aliens, who gave them the architecture, political structure, military innovations they're known for. "There's no way humans could have done this alone!" sort of thing.

History channel would be a lot more interesting, that's for sure.

The correlation between dates (birth/death, dates of battles, rulers, etc.), odd coincidences like these (I can't recall any off the top of my head) usually ends up more of a romantic sort of sentiment, rather than "of course aliens did it."

I don't think it would change the fact that ancient aliens were only generous enough to give their help to non-European civilisations...at least according to ancient alien "researchers" (archeoufologists?). The only thing Europeans got out of ancient aliens was Stonehenge, the Minoan civilisation, and all the times the aliens went to Earth and became the Greco-Roman gods (like when they helped in the Trojan War). Seriously, ever notice a dearth of content of Europeans getting help from ancient aliens compared to all other world cultures? No one says ancient aliens built the Colosseum, after all.

Point being that there's some sort of underlying ethnocentrism/sense of European superiority in ancient alien "research" which isn't likely to change just because the dates line up so coincidentally. Go look at the list of Ancient Aliens episodes, and look how many are about aliens interfering/helping in European/European-derived civilisations versus everywhere. A fraction of them.

Although if something like Ancient Aliens exists TTL (a lot of butterflies), and it gets as many seasons as OTL Ancient Aliens did (i.e. needing to reach hard for material), then they'd probably do an episode about the relationship between the Romans and the aliens that no doubt led to that coincidence.
 
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