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I was wondering what would have happened if the Roman Empire had been split in a Northern half and a Southern half. I was thinking that the North would take Britannia , Gaul , Italy , the Balkans and Anatolia , while the Southern Empire would have Spain , North Africa , Sicily , Egypt and the Levant.

In OTL , the Western Empire was disadvantaged by the division because it got the provinces which were harder to defend , and it eventually fell. In TTL , the Northern Empire would still have Constantinople and Anatolia if it loses Gaul and Italy , and the Southern Empire won't have too many threats.

Would a North-South division have given the two empires more chances to survive and thrive ?
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