Would it butterfly away the Byzantine Empire? Would Christianity still become the dominant religion in Europe? Will Alan Moore write of a trenchcoated conman named John Licinius?
Would it butterfly away the Byzantine Empire? Would Christianity still become the dominant religion in Europe? Will Alan Moore write of a trenchcoated conman named John Licinius?
Chrisitanity was adopted because it had already become one of the most important religions in the Empire. The Byzantine empire never existed (strictly speaking) and they regarded themselves as Roman until almost the end. It was western historians that labelled it Byzantine to distinguish it from the Holy Roman empire. Even the Arabs called it Rum.
You get no Council of Nicea and the Roman Catholic church looks a little (but not much) different. The state wouldn't adopt Chrisitianity as a state religion for maybe another century. This reduces the persecution of Arian Christianity and maybe you get a schism in the late 4th Century.