WI: The Migration Period never happens

What would happen if the Migration Period never happened, or at least was delayed? How would the ethnic and linguistic makeup of Europe change?
 
in order for that to take place the climate needs to be better, the mass migrations happened because of a climate low (something like the small iceage, 1000 years later).

such an improved climate alone would have massive effects, like the delayed collapse of rome.
 
Eastern Europe would have a lot more Germanic tribes like the Vandals roaming around around the region. With indirect Roman influence, the tribes would coalesce into larger, more centralized kingdoms over the centuries and in turn keep out or assimilate the Slavs migrating from the east. Depending on how stable Rome is for the time being, you would have little to Germanic infiltration on the island, meaning the island province can go either Celtic or become fully Romanized. No chaos in Britain means no migration into Britanny meaning that the people of the peninsula would speak a Romance language.
 
With indirect Roman influence, the tribes would coalesce into larger, more centralized kingdoms over the centuries and in turn keep out or assimilate the Slavs migrating from the east.

You know, interestingly enough, we have no examples of Germanic kingdoms assimilating Slavs prior to the high middle ages, and all sorts of reverse examples instead. Not convinced of your schema at all.

The Slavs themselves, however simple their material culture, seem to have spread via assimilation as well as direct settlement, and bordering the Roman state probably had a lot to do with the direction of their settlement, at least in the Balkans.
 
The problem with this is one word "The".

There were many, many waves of invaders out of the Steppes. Celts, Goths, Huns, Turks, Mongols, etc., etc.

While you might be able to adjust the timing of individual waves, you ARE going to get waves.
 
Not to mention that we don't know why exactly the Germans started moving in the first place.
 
Not to mention that we don't know why exactly the Germans started moving in the first place.

Because they retreated when confronted to hunnnic advance.


in order for that to take place the climate needs to be better, the mass migrations happened because of a climate low (something like the small iceage, 1000 years later).

such an improved climate alone would have massive effects, like the delayed collapse of rome.

Climate caused the scandinavian migration in late 8th to 10th century. Not the germanic or hungarian migrations.
 
Because they retreated when confronted to hunnnic advance.

Okay, let's go with that. Even if there are no Huns, what's stopping the next wave/s (Avars, Magyars or Turcs) from arriving? Eventually someone will lean on someone else and things will get moving.
 
Climate caused the scandinavian migration in late 8th to 10th century. Not the germanic or hungarian migrations.


i somehow doubt that. the migtation period is considered to be starting in 326 AD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migration_Period


here the climate of the last 2000 years:
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if you look at the early migration period, you can see that there were lows in the climate as bad as during the little iceage, 1000 yrs later. so it is very possible that climate played a role.
 
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