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This is a macro recipe that is a patchwork from OTL's empires and ages.
The recipe also assumes 2 things that will be heatedly dismissed as ASB:
- Rome always finds a way to keep all its provinces united in the end;
- Europe (hence Rome) still gets to a place where it has a technological edge over the rest of the world.

Here it goes:
1) The Roman Empire's borders stabilize in the 1st century AD, friendly buffer states are set up and for centuries Rome survives well enough.
2) An Age of Discoveries kicks in and much like Spain conquered its empire from California to the Southern Cone with smallpox and little manpower involved, this more powerful, unchallenged and more populated Rome proclaims the whole of America as its own.
3) A few centuries later, assuming an Industrial Revolution also kicks in in Europe first, this über-Rome colonizes most of Africa and Asia, much like the British Empire did.
4) The remaining countries of the world, one by one, are vassalized in one way or another. Mass media speeds the pace of assimilation.

This discussion is open to anyone except Elfwine and Eurofed who are having, respectively, a heart attack and an erection. :p
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