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.