Points of Divergence : Roman Empire

Because of its historical proximity to the Byzantine Empire, AH adores the Roman Empire just as much.

The Roman Empire's long history is ripe with potential PODs, and there has been much, much discussion on AH.Com.

• Discussion of non-existent Rome
• Discussion on the Romans being stopped early on
• Rome as a Merchant Empire
• Discussion on if there was no Roman Empire at all
• TL about a surviving Roman Republic
• Roman Conquests PODs
• TL about a larger, more powerful Roman Republic
• Rome versus Macedonia
• Plausibility check: Female legionaires
• Plausibility check: Roman Senate with traits of the OTL English Parliament ?
• Punic Wars PODs
• WI: Nova Roma circa 250 BC
• WI Hieronymus of Syracuse isn't assassinated in 214 BCE
• Challenge: Roman paganism survives, thrives to today (with a POD after 500 BC)
• The late republic founds the first professional banks
• Crassus in the Roman Civil War
• Romans developing their cavalry further after Crassus
• WI Spartacus emerges victorious ?
• How to preserve the Roman Republic
• The Second Roman Republic established in 27 BC
• Brutus and Cassius win at Philippi (German)
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• WI: Julia (Caesar's daughter) and her son live
• WI: Drusus The Younger becomes emperor
• WI: The Battle of Philippi won by the Republicans
• How Can Octavian Lose the Battle of Actium ?
• WI: Sextus Pompey defeats Octavian in Sicily
• WI Octavian died before Caesar ?
• Roman Conquests PODs
• WI: Marc Antony's Parthian War was Successful
• WI Marc Antony wins at Actium ?
• Challenge: Stable Roman imperial government
• WI the Romans expanded into Germania
• Romans win battle of Teutoburg forest : What is the result ?
• Poll: Which invention would have benefited the Roman Empire (until 395 AD) the most ?
• Discussion on the possibility of the Romans turning Jewish
• Discussion on Roman interests in India
• Discussion on Roman contact in the Far East
• Challenge: The Chinese Envoy reaches Rome in 97 AD
• Rome-wank TL containing good discussion
• Why was Britain not (fully) Romanized ?
• Rome becoming more like the Chinese Empire ?
• Challenge: The Roman Empire as a whole survives
• Rome survives and reaches Modern Day
• Concerning Rome Survives TLs
• A more succesful early Roman Empire
• Challenge:Rise of the Roman Persian Empire
• WI Marcus Aurelius expands Roman Empire by annexing Bohemia?
• WI Marcus Aurelius has a better heir
• WI Marcus Aurelius chooses a better heir
• WI Marcus Aurelius picks another successor ?
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• WI: Procopius' revolt is successful ?
• Discussions on Britain staying Roman after the Germanic invasions
• The possibility of a Roman Ireland
• Question: Roman Legion stays in Britain
• When did they know that Rome was dead ?
• Who are the heirs to the Roman ethnicity ?
• Alternate Fall of the Roman Empire
• WI: Romanized Areas Remain Romanized
• Would conquering or subduing Germania help stabilize the empire and save it from eventual collapse ?
• Plausibility check: Emperor Constantine unites the empire under Mithraism ?
• WI Julian the Apostate survived (1)
• WI Julian the Apostate survived (2)
• WI Julian the Apostate survived (3)
• WI Julian the Apostate survived (4)
• WI Julian the Apostate survived (5)
• WI Julian the Apostate survived (6)
• WI Julian the Apostate survived (7)
• Secular impacts of Julian's survival
• WI Julian is a devout Christian
• Roman paganism survives and thrives
• Rome divided north and south
• Alternate Eastern Roman Empire capitals
• WI Civil war in ERE in 390 AD ?
• Alaric sacks Constantinople
• How does the Western Empire do with an Elbe-Danube frontier ?
• WI Attila had not attacked west ?
• Alternate Hun strategy ?
• No Vandal sack of Rome
• Sociopolitical and Cultural progress if Roman Empire survives
• Plausibility check: Gotho-Roman Western Empire
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• Grab Bag of Roman PODs
• Some Roman PODs
• ASB WI: ASB supplies bicycles to the Roman Empire
• Roman Republic 60 BC to 1940
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