WI:No ERE

What if the ERE was never founded and so fell with the Western Roman Empire? What if?

PS: This means no Byzantines for those of you who don't know what ERE stands for .
 
What if the ERE was never founded and so fell with the Western Roman Empire? What if?

PS: This means no Byzantines for those of you who don't know what ERE stands for .

Wow that is very vague. So the ERE is never founded, else? Is Constantinople founded and made the capital or does the Imperial Court remain in Italy? Why wasn't it founded? Also, why would the ERE not being created mean the west still falls? Makes no sense. With the resources of the east commanded by the west there's no guarantee that the Empire would fall. And even if the west fell, whats to stop the Emperor and government from fleeing East and founding ERE later?
 
Wow that is very vague. So the ERE is never founded, else? Is Constantinople founded and made the capital or does the Imperial Court remain in Italy? Why wasn't it founded? Also, why would the ERE not being created mean the west still falls? Makes no sense. With the resources of the east commanded by the west there's no guarantee that the Empire would fall. And even if the west fell, whats to stop the Emperor and government from fleeing East and founding ERE later?

The capital could become Constantinople and let's just assume the Empire will fall and consume the East for the sake of a good TL, OK! We need to make it plausible , don't worry.
 
The capital could become Constantinople and let's just assume the Empire will fall and consume the East for the sake of a good TL, OK! We need to make it plausible , don't worry.

Plausibility is tough. The ERE was by a long way richer than all of Europe put together: indeed, I'd estimate that Egypt alone was probably considerably wealthier than all of non-Roman Europe in 400. Constantinople has a superb defensive location, too, but even should Constantinople be captured in some fluke before the Land Walls are put up, the barbarians have to deal with the rather obvious problem of the lack of naval supremacy that they hold.

If the ERE suffers a fifty year run of bad luck like the OTL West, then I suppose it's not impossible: but I just have my doubts!
 
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