What if the gothic war was as short as the conquest of the vandal kingdom and had just as much effect on the infusctructer? After that Justinian decides to suspend European conquests and intergrate his new holdings into the empire and completely reestablish complete Roman control over North Africa and man the boarder both new and old. By 540 this is finshed. Justinian will go after no new conquest after this. He just wants to maintain his current holdings. How does this affect this affect the empire in the long run?
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