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POD is 540AD, and Khusrau Anushirvan falling ill in Ctesiphon. He survives and recovers, but is unable to begin a war against the ERE that year. With the eastern front remaining peaceful, Justinian does not recall Belisarius from Italy, and the conquest of the Ostrogoths is successfully completed by the spring of 541. Italy's Roman infrastructure suffers six, rather than eighteen, years of devastation and destruction, and consequently, Justinian gains a relatively profitable province.

Butterflies mean that the great plague that hits Pelusium the following year never reaches Alexandria, and burns out somewhere in the Nile Delta. Pelusium itself is devastated, but the Roman and Persian Empires as a whole remain essentially untouched by the black death.

By the year 650, the Roman Empire of Constantine is restored, though with lots of setbacks and intrigue along the way.

This would be a relatively short TL, ala Valens Invictus, to be done in parallel with Isaac's Empire. Who'd read it? :)
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