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Hi everybody and welcome to my first thread.
So i wanted to ask you how could the romans have avoided the fall of the 2 exarchates of Africa and Italy with a POD after 685 (rise of Justinian II)? what would be the effects of a preserved west on the romans, the visigoths and the lombards? could this change the destiny of the latin language?
But most important can a skilled emperor (or more than one if you need more generations) use the bases the empire still have in the west to attempt a recover of the italian peninsula?
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