WI:Earlier Voelkerwanderung?

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What if, for whatever reason, the entire migration period is moved up to start around 50 AD?
 
50 AD? you will have a big chance that rome will destroy all of those tribes.


I don't get it. Wouldn't Rome be prompted to move north and expand over them at this time? Perhaps assert control over more of them and expand the Roman State as a result?

I don't recall Rome being a "slaughter them all" state, more of a nation that tried to incorporate others into their order. Rome would respond by grabbing more territory and modern Germans would speak Romansch.
 
The tribelets dripping out of the Germania at that time are liable to have very limited effect in Rome. With the exception of the Marcomanns, none of their peoples had the unity to become a threat to the Roman Empire. It is quite possible there will be a war of conquest ion response, though it is more likely that a policy of peaceful settlement is pursued, putting the migrants into sparsely populated parts of the Empire and making their menfolk auxiliary troops. There's not enough room for them to turn into the kind of 'sacred spring' caravans that the Cimbri and Teutones became before they met Rome.

Of course at some point Rome will be facing whatever is pushing the Germans, and that could get very ugly.
 
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