I've a senario in my head of the Romans spreading Further! Imagine if they had managed to defeat Persia, make their armies march eastwards and take the whole of India, Pakistan, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia and march their armies all the way to the Chinese border...Would Rome have been able to handle the Might of ancient China? Could China handle the power of Imperial Rome?
What If Rome had made a peace deal with the Vikings and learned from them how to make better sailing vessels? Could the Empire have been preserved and saved and unified and possibly expaneded the other way by the use of the Long boats and the Roman Vessels of war? Could the Romans have spread their people and empire accross the seas all the way to Iceland, Greenland and possibly have even had a few trading posts in America?
I'm just throwing a few Ideas out!
sissco