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@danielsantiagourtado3430

11 ай бұрын

Thanks man! Love your channel!😊😊😊❤❤❤❤

@YaBoiBaxter2024

11 ай бұрын

​@@danielsantiagourtado3430 Me too!!

@maxelkjaernersting

11 ай бұрын

Ew

@socialistrepublicofvietnam1500

11 ай бұрын

Bro, don't fall for it, it's a scam

@dbks_8483_idjw

11 ай бұрын

Are trying to scam people or just gullible?

But would they even be Romans without a succession crisis every third emperor?

@bobboo101

11 ай бұрын

No. They definitely would not. And, we can even throw in "is rome even roman without a plebian strike?"

@lazysunside

11 ай бұрын

They would be Roman, just not as we know it. Civil war would happen naturally but it will only strengthen them since they have plot armor and the power of “how do you turn this on” on their side.

@whoareyouyouareclearlylost323

7 ай бұрын

Would it even be a Chinese Dynasty if a warlord didn't pop up every other generation?

@whoareyouyouareclearlylost323

7 ай бұрын

But would they even be a Iranian empire if it wasn't threatened by a Eastern hordic invasion?

@alexandrostheodorou8387

6 ай бұрын

Not a rome i wanna read about.

Can we get part 2 for how a 'perfect' Rome would deal with the events of the middle ages

@wargamesmaster

11 ай бұрын

Wouldn't a "what if everything went perfect for Eastern Rome" video be more adequate?

@stigrabbid589

11 ай бұрын

That would be neat, especially if it became a small series that went to the modern era.

@NovikNikolovic

11 ай бұрын

69th like

@TaeSunWoo

11 ай бұрын

Super based Eastern Roman/Byzantine time

@wargamesmaster

11 ай бұрын

But I suppose a video on what if everything went perfect for Western Rome could be nice too.

About Carthage being conquered immediately being unrealistic: it nearly happened. One of the Roman consuls jumped the gun in the demand of surrender, which only strengthened the Carthaginian war effort and led to its survival for three whole wars with Rome.

@Yomesto

11 ай бұрын

it was markus atillius something something

@Yomesto

11 ай бұрын

you know, big booty steve

@YaBoiBaxter2024

11 ай бұрын

​@@Yomesto 😂😂😂😂

@wargamesmaster

11 ай бұрын

@@Yomesto It's Marcus Atilius Regulus.

@unocualqu1era

11 ай бұрын

@@wargamesmaster Should've been called Previous Crassus Mediocritus

While I agree with most of the video, I believe it would have believe that Rome should have actually conquered Dacia sooner in this timeline, preferably as a replacement to Britannia, and continue its conquest to control all of Panonia as well. My reasoning being that Dacia, tho a difficult provence to hold, was greatly rich in gold, silver, iron, timber, and many other resources that provided a boon to the Roman's. Panonia is a relatively fertile land that could act as another bread basket to the empire as well as grazing land for horses and cattle, which was of great importance to the empires economy according to Casus. In addition to all this, mountains are far easier to defend than a river. While with a river you need to protect the entire breath of the river, with the carpatian mountains providing a natural land barrier for the Romans, they need only fortify the mountain passages and keep one or two legions in reserve, one in Panonia and one in Dacia. This would free up the Danube to possibly become a major river for trade as well as a secondary fallback line, further protecting the Roman core while also providing stability for further prosperity for the Roman provences in the Balkans.

@jucelinofilho2290

11 ай бұрын

@eon gerbe east of the Carpathians is only problematic if Rome was seeking to expand across it. With the natural barrier that is the Carpathians it would act as a fortress to blunt any oncoming nomadic peoples, be it the Huns, Alan's, Goths, etc. If they where to somewhere cross the mountains, break through the fortess gaurding the path, and defeat the roman garisoning troops in Panonia or Dacia, only then would they be able to make it to the Danube. And thats presuming they dont take time to pillage, regroup and tend to the wounded, or that the romans dont fall back and establish defenses along the Danube until reinforcements arrive. I could see a relief force being able to make it to the Danube or already stationed as a secondary line of defense. As for the communication thing, the Carpathians are closer to Rome than Jerusalem or Britannia. If the capital where to move to Constantinople then communication using the Danube would be even easier as they'd just sail up the black sea and follow the Danube and roads.

@Memelord1117

9 ай бұрын

It's also a good source of manpower in the form of civilizable Dacians, heck, Aurelian's wife was from that area; the Restitutor Orbis had great taste.

@arched3954

8 ай бұрын

They also converted quite easily to roman culture, its surprising how romania could hold its latin heritage all the way to modern day with only 50 years of cultural conversion.

@jucelinofilho2290

8 ай бұрын

@@arched3954 also true! And with the Panonian basin settled there'd be a large area of romanized citizens on the boarder to provide manpower. It's possible this would stop the southward expension of the Slavs, possibly stopping the Huns as well at the Carpathians

@buddermonger2000

8 ай бұрын

​@@eongerbeWell being able to use the Danube for communication would also be a helpful boon here that they don't have if they're trying to guard the river

I don't think comparing Rome to China in this matter makes much sense. Chinese geography is much easier to unite than the Mediterranean, in a way, everything did go perfect for Rome already.

@chinchillaruby4170

11 ай бұрын

Also the religion thing seemed a bit too much of a butterfly to me as Christianity changed the familiar structure of Europe among other things, making a sequel video hard to predict.

@habibcicero3833

8 ай бұрын

and its not like china didnt have countless rebellions and wars, and most of china was and still is ethnically and culturally diverse speaking different languages from locale to locale

@buddermonger2000

8 ай бұрын

​@jasontod5843 Well no it's over 90% Han Chinese with a relatively united language required for the leadership class.

@buddermonger2000

8 ай бұрын

I don't think Chinese geography is significantly easier to unite than the Mediterranean given you still have to move around China by foot or horseback except along the coast. While for the Mediterranean, with its expansive coastline and population centers hugging that area, is far easier to manage since you can sail since it in real terms acts as one big lake.

@chinchillaruby4170

8 ай бұрын

@@buddermonger2000 water makes things harder to control, not easier. If water made things easier to control, Taiwan would not be a geopolitical issue right now. The mountains in Europe are more annoying to cross than the ones in China/Tibet because the slope is gentle from the Chinese plains but is steep from the Indian plains.

Your four governments idea was literally tried and failed by Diocletian's Tetrarchy, and it just didn't work. The ruler of any of the four Romes always simply wanted to control the other three, because the greatest problem to Rome was that, after the conquest of Dacia and the failure to hold Mesopotamia, that there was never a reason to use their vast militaries to go outward when there was infinitely more wealth to be gained by using it against your internal rivals. Honestly, the best way to stabalize Rome's position would be to weaken the military's political power significantly. Honestly a tumultuous and tiring eternal conquest/occupation of Parthia might've been for the best, both because it was the only significant other source of wealth that Rome hadn't taken, as well as the strain it would put on the military to actually do its job.

@Szpareq

11 ай бұрын

So the best way for Rome to survive would be to feudalize and turn into HRE?

@porter5224

11 ай бұрын

@@Szpareq what?

@KaiHung-wv3ul

10 ай бұрын

@@Szpareq In that case the feudal lords would just rip the empire apart in a massive battle royale to be the one on top.

@t0xic661

9 ай бұрын

When you cannot expand the pie the goal of the nations elite instead becomes to divide it. Conquest or Slow rot from the inside. Human power structures are not very stable.

@arched3954

8 ай бұрын

Not really, Diocletian created a system with two major emperors and two minors, this is a really bad system, but he isn't talking about various emperors but rather administration centers, which could be governed inside the provinces of Rome like beaourocratic districts. Also Mesopotamia would have been a pain in the ass to defend, there is really no way of defending it against persia, Hadrian didn't retreat because he had an option, also all of this is to evade overextension, how would you do it? Or do you think the romans didn't have problems with overextension?

I disagree with the Danubian border. Rivers aren’t as good as a defensive border as people think, especially on a time where armies and information travels slowly and where heavy equipment doesn’t exist yet. One lucky set of circumstances can get a whole army in the other side in under a day. The Carpathians into the Sudeten mountains into the Oder river would be a better border. The border is shorter, away from population centres and armies can only cross in specific choke points. The Great Hungarian plains are also really fertile.

@jasoncuculo7035

11 ай бұрын

Agreed, one less thing for me to describe in my comment. His choice of the Danube is wrong. Eventually, even in this time line the Goths fleeing west from the Huns and then later the Hunt themselves would attack. The much shorter easier to defend border and added furtile agricultural land could make the difference thereby preventing the fall of the Western Roman Empire entirely.

@ADogNamedStay

11 ай бұрын

​@@jasoncuculo7035I mean, alot of people beat the dead horse and claimed themselves as roman long after the empire collapsed.

@matiasmosquella1830

11 ай бұрын

I would agree in that sense but the issue of communication between such far regions comes back into play. I kinda agree though when you consider that multiple times the danubian river froze over enough for armies to March through

@eccoeco3454

11 ай бұрын

Problem is, that's a whole lot of territory to add to the empire, territory the late empire wouldn't have the population to man and control

@cristipopa4665

11 ай бұрын

Danube was not a defensive barier it was a logistic hiway suplying the forts and legions on the border.

As somebody from Rome, thank you for making this video.

@YaBoiBaxter2024

11 ай бұрын

When in Rome!

@erketyrettile4734

11 ай бұрын

​@@YaBoiBaxter2024when in paris! Niggas

@hatebeing_sober

3 ай бұрын

Where in Rome?

@A9.9.

9 күн бұрын

How in Rome?

Could you do a video on what if the world was united? Either looking back in history to see when this was most likely to happen or looking forward and saying what conditions would be necessary to bring this about. This could either be under 1 empire/ country or as 1 alliance block

@BlackJannik

11 ай бұрын

Yes please

@YaBoiBaxter2024

11 ай бұрын

Starship Troopers go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!

@YaBoiBaxter2024

11 ай бұрын

Galactic Republic go brrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!

@robert9016

11 ай бұрын

The Mongolian-Habsburg empire was founded when Charles V married a Mongolian princess, converting to Tengrism and uniting the somehow still existing Mongolian Empire with the Habsburg empire at its peak. With Mongolian and Chinese land power combined with the Spanish fleet, England and France were quickly invaded, and Eastern lands were taken by the Mongol hordes. As European technology improved and was shared with the Mongols, quelling rebellions and holding onto land in the New World, Europe and the East became a lot easier, as did taking over Africa, India, and Southeast Asia. The Mongol Iberian Empire, yes.

@YaBoiBaxter2024

11 ай бұрын

​@@robert9016 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Imagine they had a printing press, and understood the value of the steam engine they invented (but used as a party trick to open doors lol)

@sosig6445

11 ай бұрын

The stean engine they invented was REALLY weak and had no potential and worked on different principals than those invented in england in 1700's, not to mention they didn't entirely understood the physics behind it hampering their chance of improving it neither did they have metallurgy technology good enough to build resilient steam boilers. Roman steam engines were crudely made novelty, toys, and curious artifacts for merely lifting curtains, operating waterorgans (hydraulis) and opening temple gates. English steam engines were important precision made tools made out of quality metal alloys, for mining manufacturing and transportation.

@DistantLights

11 ай бұрын

@@sosig6445 exactly, I wish they understood how to use the engine like the english did

@sosig6445

11 ай бұрын

@@DistantLights Theyd need hundreds of years of mathematical and physics advamcements

@DistantLights

11 ай бұрын

@@sosig6445 just let me have my steampunk roman empire headcanon lmao, I know it's not actually realistic

@sosig6445

11 ай бұрын

@@DistantLights They did know of the waterwheel and helix used to gain kinetic energy and to transport water upstream respectively so IF they were to use steam commercially it would likely be used on ships revolutionising commerce and communication across the mediterran

Rome was very close to having a working steam engine (they had a small prototype, but nothing on an industrial scale). With early industrial technology (railroads, factories, telegraphs, etc) they could have overcome the communication issues and expanded even further

@VenusFloh

11 ай бұрын

Imagine a game about a steampunk Roman Empire

@historyman9436

10 ай бұрын

yeah its honestly impressive how often and how many people underestimate the romans and greeks. Sure, we are now WAY more advanced on LOADS of levels than the romans. At the same time you need to remember that the dark ages were called that for a reason. So many of romes technologies, advantages etc were lost for hundreds of years. We still have not seen a country get close to forming a proper, united europe on the scale that the Romans did - some got "close", but never to a level that their hold was slightly solidified.

@10gamer64

5 ай бұрын

The question is whether or not they had good enough metallurgy to create effective steam engines. The aeolipile is incredible inefficient, even more so than the Newcomen engine (A primitive steam engine only useful for pumping water out of coal mines, and only coal mines) and so is unlikely to be economical on any large scale. In fact the only known account account of an aeolipile being used for anything other than a party trick (i.e. opening doors, rotating spits) was a highly questionable account of a steamship in 1543, which only appeared as a copy in 1826, with no original account being known. In addition, after the Opium Wars, the Qing attempted to construct steamships using traditional metallurgy, but were unable to build an effective example until western experts were brought over.

"A religion that unifies the Empire but is more tolerant" Sol Invictus: Am I a joke to you?

@ajax1475

3 ай бұрын

I was thinking the same, 🙏🌞

@lolloblue9646

16 күн бұрын

DEVS•SOL•INVICTVS

Considering how Byzantium aka Rome 2, lasted a thousand years despite being Christian, it is still possible to have a Christian Roman Super empire. The Edict of Milan just tolerated every form of worship including Christianity. It was only later when paganism was banned. Also Hellenism was already falling out of favor and the rise of debauchery and social degeneracy because a breeding ground for new religions. Christianity also had to compete with Neoplatonism, Manicheanism and Sol Invictus, the latter of which was Constantine's original faith

@krosskreut3463

11 ай бұрын

​@@InsertAccountthem all pre 300s must be strange for you

@JVPierre142

11 ай бұрын

An early rise of the cult of Sol Invictus could have laid the foundations of a very smooth conversion to Christianity down the line. With Sol Invictus, the fast assimilation of foreign religion remain while the idea of a dominant sun God develops over the centuries. By the time the Empire Empire form, Hellenism is reduced to secondary folklore and the cult of Sol Invictus is made official. Later down the line, Christianity is seen as compatible with the cult and the religion can spread incredibly fast in the whole Empire.

@Testimony_Of_JTF

11 ай бұрын

@@krosskreut3463 Yes

@CaptainGrimes1

11 ай бұрын

What do you mean debauchery? As if republican Rome didn't have orgies and drinking bouts 😂you think Christian rome had more of these?

@utubrGaming

11 ай бұрын

Hear me out fellas, if his: Initials are JC He claims to be of royal or divine descent from his mother's line He's wildly popular with the people Practiced a doctrine of clemency Upended a few laws of the established political scene Made a few good speeches that made the people love him Had a few adventures while on a boat Refused the position of king a few times when asked Was betrayed and ultimately killed by those who claimed was closest to him Ascended into divinity after his death. Had a cult built around who claim legitimacy from their proximity to him Established a legacy that's intertwined with the Roman world and identity, and still persists today then he's not Iesous Christos Ben Yosef the Nazarene, he's Julius Caesar! Not sure whether Caesarism or Julianism would be the better name for the religion though.

Christianity was gonna come to Rome, one way or another. One thing it did help with though, was providing unity between the Christian sections of the Empire. Maybe if it spread faster, it might have helped keep Rome together?

As I have said on all these videos, you should do a video like this but for the Colonial and European Dutch Empire from the 1600s until 1941, seeing how large it could have gotten to be if everything went well for it.

@YaBoiBaxter2024

11 ай бұрын

Dutch Brasil go brrrrrrrrrr! 🇳🇱🇧🇶🇧🇷

@ZenikkTF2

11 ай бұрын

Dutch North America would be insane

@diegoyqulki

11 ай бұрын

​@@ZenikkTF2very insane and Brazil

@rizkyadiyanto7922

6 ай бұрын

if only the dutch traded normaly like indians, arabs, and chinese in indonesia instead of colonializing local people as second class citizen.

I really like your choice of borders, but I'd make just a couple of adjustments. 1) *Walls.* A double line of fortified walls similar to Adrian's Wall in the real timeline. As much as possible, they should be built behind large rivers, to improve on the already efficient natural border defense, building the forts ideally on the weaker points of the river. So the outer one should follow the Elbe border and then continue South and East and follow the Danube, wile the inner one should be built on the Rhine and then either connect with the Danube wall or follow some inner minor Danube tributaries, like the Sava river. A third, important wall should be built on the Persian border, North to South, mountain range to mountain range (with possibly a second line along the Tigris river going North to Trebizond). A fourth/fifth wall might be placed along the Southern side of the Caucasus mountain range, with forts mostly where invaders would cross the mountains. This would also mean extending the territory a bit East-Northeast to a much more defendable position, filling the southern side of the Caucasus, Armenia, Shirvan, etc. 2) *Sea.* No matter how thin and irrelevant, I'd try to conquer (or, ideally, peacefully annex) some small amount of coastal land to connect the Georgian holdings to the Crimean ones. Granted, these areas (including the Georgian and Crimean/Moldavian coastal areas) wouldn't have the same land defences as everything else (considering the deserts, the ocean and the previously discussed borders). However, it would be worth to hold them for one simple reason. If any future nomads and/or invaders from the East wanted to spread into Roman territories through the sea, they would have to first invade our land and fight us, and then be able to hold that land, before they could even think about building a fleet to spread West. This naval domination strategy should be completed by having five large ports and five large fleets, placed at: - the Constantinople choke point; - either Alexandria or somewhere between the Nile and the Sinai peninsula; - the Gibraltar choke point; - somewhere along the Northern coast of France, ideally at Rotomagus / Rouen, which is only slightly inland along the Seine, and thus in the perfect location for a port; - and ideally, considering the slight land adjustment above, at a new settlement placed where the river Tigris empties in the Persian Gulf.

If you are making this series, I should suggest you to do a "What if Everything went Perfect for Gran Colombia / France / Spanish Empire"

This is one of my favorite series, the idea is so unique in this space since so often the focus is just on singular events. Keep up the good work!

Scenario Idea: What if everything went perfectly for Post-Napoleonic France

@d.dante_vergil

9 ай бұрын

And that scenario is, my friend, definitely what Napoleon III had been dreaming about. A Post-Napoleonic France that is replaced by a... well, Neo-Napoleonic France. Diplomacy, modern nation-building and a race for East Asia.

The best ending is that Caesar salad gets a different name than in our own timeline.

I mean, if you've managed to make the Roman State stronger and capable of withstanding an extra couple centuries or more, Christianism could become that unifying religion if given time to spread more

@edwardmiessner6502

11 ай бұрын

NO. Christianism proved bad for the Empire mostly because of Constantine and Theodosius

@jacobscott7261

5 ай бұрын

@@edwardmiessner6502I’m not so sure. Rome never needed a reason to have a civil war

Scenario Idea: What if everything went perfectly for the Soviet Union from 1922 onward?

@FollowCarrier1997

11 ай бұрын

I think there is a video about That, but its name is what If the sóviets son the cold war

Please consider taking this video down and issuing an apology post if you're not stuck in a contract. The sponsor is at best a terrible investment scheme. Masterworks essentially allows you to buy "shares" in a painting, yes in an object that has no inherent value and represents nothing. You don't know where that painting is, if it is actually being properly maintained, and if it's safe from theft. They will eventually sell each piece, or you can sell off your share. The problem comes in the fact that the shares are not at all liquid - if there's no buyers, too bad, just wait until the company decides when to sell it. Using this technique they can sell get the statistics you see on screen, they just sell the profitable ones. Literally anyone in "the elite class" would be absolutely losing it laughing at the people who invest in something like this for returns over, I don't know - AN INDEX FUND? Best part of an index fund is there is normally a 0.1% fee on transactions, not a full: not 0.2, not 2 but TWENTY PERCENT fee with masterworks, With an annual maintenance fee added on, it's just ridiculous. Okay so, 2 points so far: 1 - in basically every way shape and form masterworks is an inferior investment to a stock market. 2 - Masterworks is kind of shady and in no way transparent. But there's more. For starters, you're sponsorship is insanely predatory in nature: "Watching your life fall apart in front of your eyes in some of the worst economic conditions ever? Try new, shady investment! I'm partnering with a businessman who used to spend his days patenting shit like computer mouses, then swamping small companies to drown them in legal fees if they don't give in to my demands, and thus it's we get a sweet trade where everyone wins but you, the viewer If you're actually just not the sharpest tool in the shed and didn't think to research something before promoting it to thousands, do the right thing - take it down and apologise. Edit: okay I got a bit too angry lol but please do something

@Marche_Ottomane

11 ай бұрын

@Karl Von Lytovski if not an outright scam it's awful financial advice

Yessss! I was waiting for a video like this!

You legit released this vid at the perfect time I was looking for this specific video lol

12:30 huh, that's actually great! The Emperors picking the most intelligent/ideal man to be his successor from his own family -- making one's choices broader and, quite possibly, better IMO since the actual supposed heir and son of the current Emperor will have to work his crap off to be recognized.

1:55 I think for the same reason why Rome should have expanded to the Elbe, it should have to the caphatian mountains. Furthermore I think (but don’t know) that the Pannonian basin would be a great bread basket

I'd love to see one on if the Ancient Greeks had the best outcome, especially considering how the concept of Democracy might itself spread & if it would become dominant earlier on.

@Michael_the_Drunkard

11 ай бұрын

That is 21th century romanticist nonsense. In Ancient and definitely Hellenistic Greece, democracies were only present in a few city-states. Mark the latter word, that system was not designed to govern over whole kingdoms, let alone empires. With the ascendancy of monarchic Macedonia, the Greek experiment of democracy was put to rest for good. Before you say muuh Roman Republic: This particular system of government did not come from or was influenced by the Greeks. Their systems have more differences than similarities. The Roman Republic was mostly oligarchic (Optimates & Populares). The senate was the only institution that granted the common folk some power, but it was prone to corruption. This system too died when the republic expanded and singular consuls like Julius Caesar rose up and "crossed the rubicon".

@jonathankriesler2037

5 ай бұрын

@@Michael_the_Drunkard Yeah but you still could have the very concept of democracy present in thought for many people. Perhaps a sort of struggle-of-power-states, like Roman Empire and British Empire, where the king and the senate both share power with a changing dynamic between them. Even a king who handles the big issues and a senate that handles day to day life. All of these options would drastically increase western type democracies’ development

Next up, try one on other ancient empires like Persia, Cathage, and Alexander the Great's Macedonian empire! 😀

@torikeqi8710

6 ай бұрын

Alexander's empire wasnt greek. He actually killed and massacred greeks

Can you make what if everything went perfect for the Caliphates? I think they always got the short end of the stick in alternate history.

@atrebuchet5267

11 ай бұрын

Honestly, I think things already went perfect for the Caliphates. A state in the middle of nowhere desert with the singular goal of spreading some new religion nobody's heard of flanked by 2 millennia old empires, accomplished it's goal and it's religion reaches from Morocco to Indonesia.

@muhammadkashif1276

11 ай бұрын

​@@atrebuchet5267 what if things went even MORE PERFECT

@atrebuchet5267

11 ай бұрын

@@muhammadkashif1276 The point is to keep it plausible and somewhat realistic.

@mappingshaman5280

11 ай бұрын

@@atrebuchet5267 But they didn't. If the umayyads won the battles of constantinople and Tours, they could have converted most of europe. The abbasid revolution too was a terrible thing as it divided the muslims, allowing for things like the reconquista and the rise of the fatimids.

@mcbeaty3971

11 ай бұрын

@@mappingshaman5280 And why would the Europeans convert to a sand monkey religion exactly?

Great video as always, I have an interesting "challange" for you. ->Do what if everything went perfect for Poland BUT since the year 1794 (date of Kościuszko Uprising)

Can you PLEASE do what if Britain never restored the monarchy after the English Civil War?

@andyreginald9272

11 ай бұрын

“Cromwell! Cromwell! The greatest British king!”

Nice vid Could you do Spain I think it would be a cool video to see them still with there colonies and be world power

Christianity was one of the large binding qualities that kept Rome alive for so long. I don’t think it needs removal or change at all.

@Kingdomkey123678

2 ай бұрын

It caused internal strife early on, including a few civil wars

British Empire please ☕️

@oskaranddaniel7582

11 ай бұрын

That would honestly be a great idea

Do a what if everything went perfect for britain

@kyran243

11 ай бұрын

That would be a long episode

@kyran243

11 ай бұрын

Im British. Us losing America was the worst thing what ever happened to the world.

@twomp5613

11 ай бұрын

@@kyran243how so America is literally just the British empire part two.

@kyran243

11 ай бұрын

@Karl Von Lytovski We sent the people we didnt want to America

I think there's a lot to be said for Rome conquering Mesopotamia, not so much because it's valuable to them, though it would be, but because it would gut the economic basis of Persian strength. It's been said that empires of this era are an alliance between somewhere that makes excess food, somewhere with cities and somewhere with soldiers. By taking Mesopotamia, Rome locks down all the cities and food surpluses in the east, leaving those dangerous Iranian cavalry hopelessly underfunded.

In terms of the 3 additional co-capitals for the Roman Empire you've recommended, I would suggest: - Augusta Trevevorum for Gallia and Germania (modern Trier) - Byzantium/ Constantinople for the Balkans - Antioch for the Eastern provinces

omg I completely forgot about rome! :O Best idea for this series!

Here is a fun scenario what if Richard the lionheart survived because if he did that would have changed a lot of history surprisingly there's not a single alternate-history video on what if Richard the lionheart survived not one

@SteelingLight

11 ай бұрын

Yeah, but Richard the Lionheart was an idiot king who bankrupted his nation in the name of religious glory and personal zeal, while leaving a mess for his successor who promptly became regarded as the worse because of Richard's fuck ups.

@smal750

Ай бұрын

Richard CoeurDeLion

Do you think you could do an alternate scenario where everything went perfectly for the British Empire? It’d be quite interesting to see how far they would go with territorial conquests.

@CaptainGrimes1

11 ай бұрын

Everything did go perfectly up until 1914 lol

@KaiHung-wv3ul

10 ай бұрын

Just have them keep their 1914 borders, and have the United States, Russia, Germany, and eventually China massively weakened somehow. Maybe have the CSA win the American Civil War, and WW1 never happen. Other than that it's hard to weaken Germany, Russia, or China that much without one of the others profiting. Maybe getting the Prussian king to accept the 1848 deal to become a constitutional monarch of the German confederation, therefore reducing Germany as a threat, and later having everyone team up against Russia perhaps? China was damaged a lot by Maoist rule, but maybe they can keep it locked in the warlord era for longer.

@richardthomas5362

9 ай бұрын

@@CaptainGrimes1 Except the American Revolution. Although, if America remained part of the Empire it makes me wonder if Australia and New Zealand would have been settled?

@CaptainGrimes1

9 ай бұрын

@@richardthomas5362 trading the east coast of America for the riches of India and Africa was a good swap 😂

You should do one of these on either the North Sea empire or the kalmar Union.

Love this channel

@YaBoiBaxter2024

11 ай бұрын

So do I.

As an Italian, I’m excited for this.

Rome *survives nearly 2000 years. PH: "Rookie numbers"

Rome the best❤

@springtrap360sniper4

11 ай бұрын

Nah, Mongolia got more meme potential, thus it's better.

@bnw5435

11 ай бұрын

Not if you're a Celt

@ldubt4494

11 ай бұрын

​@@bnw5435 early in the empire not, but later on celts had it good too.

@mikedoeshistory7865

11 ай бұрын

@@springtrap360sniper4ntm the size of Mongolia to Rome

@springtrap360sniper4

11 ай бұрын

@@mikedoeshistory7865 Yeah, the empire was a certified Big Boy of it's time.

I have an idea for the next episode of this series "What if everything went perfect for Romania" and yes while i know Romania is not that old it'll still be interesesting to see an episode of Romania

Maybe you could make a video if history went perfect for Italy starting maybe from its unification with Sardinia-Piedmont after the Napoleonic wars

Dividing the administration of rome into 4 literally overrides every other thing you tried to fix.

I imagine in this timeline, the Roman Empire would eventually collapse. But the people of Gaul, Britannia, Hispaniac, Greece, Germanía and Egypt. Would have a Roman identity and ethnicity. Like how the Arab caliphate Arabized 22 countries.

@NewLightning1

9 ай бұрын

Greeks would definitely remained greeks since alot of "romans" thing came from greek and greek culturally conquered rome. But I get what you're trying to saying

@I-io8ee

6 ай бұрын

That's literally what happened with our timeline though. Honestly, as flawed as Rome was, it DID give people throughout the mediterranean a roman identity. Look at how many states claimed to be Rome (Ottomans, Russians, Germans, Franks, etc) or how Latin remained the lingua franca of europe for a long time The real reason why these states didn't form a single identity like China was geography. Europe and the mediterranean is divided by mountains, seas, peninsulas, etc. It would've always been hard to keep it all Roman as foreigners like Arabs, Germans, slavs, etc could all just easily migrate into the areas and conquer it

17:00 How about a henotheistic religion based on Sol Invictus? Something similar was kinda already developing and it was popular with soldiers in the late empire. It might also bridge the differences between the pagans and christians

What about instead of retreating to the Danube, the romans expand to the carpathian mountains, with this they have a easily defencable borders and having the rich lands of Dacia and pannonia

They should have done a "tetrarchy" system a lot earlier. Too many years in the empire were ruled by one insane monster after another with no one to challenge him. Multiple emperors ruling at once would solve this problem. They had experimented doing joint rule with Marcus & Lucius but it never was implemented properly.

@abyssstrider2547

10 ай бұрын

That's more like an Oligarchy.

I'm sorry but the part about Dacia is just silly. Dacia actually was a good province for some time before its mines went dry. They didn't spend unecessary resources defending it. It would be better to just abandon it after the mines go dry rather than never conquering it

A better idea would be for Rome to have three capitals in which the Emperor had to spend time visiting and giving power to the Senate in each Capital while he was gone, which meant he had to appease them to prevent them from promoting a usurper, but it also meant the Emperor by default had to be competent and a competent Emperor could diplo-strung the three cities together to keep them all loyal to the empire. The three cities I would propose would be Rome, Carthage and Byzantium. Why Carthage? Because it is closer to the Imperial Breadbasket of Northern Africa. Each city also serves a different function for the Empire keeping their relevance even they are divided in overall importance. Rome is the Spiritual Capital which houses the Imperial Religion (Original Roman Paganism and later Christianity, having it decided thi way prevents the schism between the churches as Rome would automatically be the leading church, even though this could cause issues between the Emperor and the Pope). Carthage is the Financial Capital which structures its society a lot more like Venice concerned with monetary transactions, being the de facto Bank of the Empire, and basically a Merchant Republic within the Empire, bankrolling the empire while also promoting its national interests in the future when investments in new ventures becomes important in promoting the Empire's Growth and preventing its Decay. Also having Carthage so far away which may seem detrimental for military reasons, it actually a good idea because you want the financial capital to see as little bit of action as possible, preferably none. That way it is properly secured and so is your Empire as the lost of finances for the Empire due to the Fourth Crusade is what ultimately doomed it. Byzantium, which would retain its name as such would be the Military Capital of the Empire, concentrating entirely like Prussia and Sweden on advancing its military capacity to be more like an army with a nation rather than a nation with an army. The leading general from the East is always adopted by the Reigning Emperor after appeasing both Rome and Carthage to become his successor to keep the Empire going. Some parts of the Empire like I said before but also including beyond France and Hispania such as Germania, Carpathia, Morocco (Mauretania), and further lands such as the British Isles, Scandinavia, and Eastern Europe as well as acquiring all of Iran, India, East Africa, West Africa, and Central Asia into Autonomous Vassal Kingdoms and Republics that serve the Empire and by culture through Rome are pretty much a part of it but functioning independently to maintain their own affairs as to not harm Rome financially and militarily. Although Rome is capable and willing to support them in such endeavors as needed. So think of the entire map of CK3 being the Roman Empire or the Holy Roman Empire, which it would call itself after adopting Christianity. It has the same capital as I had said. If you know the game or have seen the map of empires, then I will draw for you through my words what its subdivisions would be from the inside. 1) The Core Area that is under Roman control either through the Emperor or someone appointed by him are Byzantine Empire and Italia including the outside Kingdom Areas of Jazira, Mesopotamia, Syria, Jerusalem, Egypt, Africa, Nubia and the Blemmyia. Direct Imperial Control are the Byzantine Empire, minus Georgia and Armenia, which are Imperial Grand Principalities. The purpose of such is to provide opportunity for high ranking nobility in Georgia and Armenia to be fully integrated into the empire while retaining their unique distinctions which will help diversify the Empire's military while keeping it largely the same. It also generates competition between the two which is necessary to keep the military constant advancing otherwise it will lag as what had happened in China. 2) The Kingdom Areas outside of what was stated are areas utilized by local Ethnic or Barbarian Migratory Kingdoms such as Persia consisting of Persians and Morocco consisting of Vandals. Some areas will be further divided if decentralized control is preferred due to the volatility that region may have for the empire if fully unified as such would be with Carpathia.

I mentioned this in the Bulgaria video but I would love to see a what if everything went perfect for the UK, a history of early social reforms such as slavery being banned and actively stopped, imperial federation, and in this scenario many wars won such as those against France, most importantly keeping her Angevin Kingdom would make the UK an absolute monster, theoretically if we kept to the same idea that the UK had lineages connecting them to both the German and Russian empires then she could have a personal union or eventually annexing them peacefully too, unrealistic, incredibly, fun thought, I think so

Commodus wasn't his dad's top pick for a successor; it was his son in law Pompeianus, but he turned it down.

Great video! Personally, I think the Carpathians would have been a much better frontier than the lower Danube. Yes, Dacia was hard to control, but have lets say Hadrian conquer the entire Carpathian basin due to him believing it would be strategically imperative for the safety of Illyria/Moesia/Thrace. Now Gothic, Iazyges, Sarmatian or Alan tribes would have to fight (and migrate) through mountain passes to reach the riches of Pax Romana. Rome conquering to the Elbe? From my knowledge of the tenacity and freedom loving spirit of the classical German tribes, this seems impossible. It was densely forested and colonization would have been extremely difficult as no Roman would want to move there. But maybe. I do think abandoning Britain would have been smart. Perhaps by the 3rd century or so some king would consolidate rule over the island, and Rome could have developed an Armenia-like relationship with them. Also, modern Iraq or lower Mesopotamia was undefendable longer-term for the same reasons as Persia: communication too slow, and climate too hot for Roman soldiers (as experienced during the campaigns of Julian). Changing the tradition and laws around succession would definitely, although very high chance charismatic and all-powerful emperors would ignore this without revolt. Geographic division of the defense of the empire was done IOTL, so no changes here. Its not like 1 general can conduct operations against the Franks and Parthians simultaneously lol, the Romans obv knew this. Major problem was revolts when the authority of the reigning emperor weakened (which was pretty much an inevitability spanning centuries). Problem with "the identity of 'Romanness' spreading deeply throughout the empire, thus allowing the empire to keep getting back up after defeats like China", is that that already happened. The vast majority of the population identified with "Rome", bar perhaps Arabs/Berbers/later Germanic migrants. The problem was, after plagues depopulated the provinces, and barbarian migrations into the empire took place, this couldn't work. This only worked in China because China was traditionally literally shaped like a circle. Communication and centralization, and thus unification, was always easy. The (Western) Roman empire definitely could have lasted longer, but not much longer. The combination of geography, plagues, barbarian migrations and human weakness made it pretty much inevitable. One little talked about reason, is that due to the empire's nature as *literally controlling the entire 'advanced', known world*, it had little competition and thus hardly developed technologically from the time Augustus ascended till the invasion of the huns, so an unbeatable technological advantage over the barbarians would never have happened.

@onijaanjonu3367

11 ай бұрын

I agree with most.of this, but I feel like the point about the germanic tribes is overstated. In OTL, augustus came very very close to successfully incorporating Germania, with the province being relatively quiet and less prone to revolt than longer term roman holding such as illyria - it's in almost solely due to armenius that Germania was lost, and even during that episode, rome's local German allies had attempted to warn Varus of armenius's treachery to no avail, so one can hardly conclude that there was something innate within the germanic peoples which made them unamenable to romanization The actual population of the germanic tribes which entered roman territory during the migration period is also quite a bit overstated. even in the most extreme cases, the germanic population never amounted to even a third of the local roman population, except for perhaps in britain. Roman identity was also less sticky than one would expect, compared to the post roman Greeks, who, even missing the eastern roman empire continued to at least self identify as romans long after the state collapsed, the local populations of the empire dropped roman identity in only a few generations

This was great!

Something that could help if Augustus was succesful at conquering and annexing Arabia ( western part : Hijaz ) and Nubia . It would give access to spices , ivory and ebony and precious stone that would help Rome have better trade and economy.

While we're talking about political and army reforms, Rome would need to eventually adopt feudalism, or something similar. Basically, have those 4 "administrative zones" eventually break into smaller zones still, basically making a top-down proto-federalist system, eventually paving the way to satisfying calls for Democracy without Rome crumbling.

Possible History, Id like to see a “What if History went perfect for Poland” it would start at 1815 during the congress of Vienna, and ends at 2009

Religion: simple, separate Church and State. Christians can have their beliefs, but don't get the state involved in it let alone make it the Empires official religion.

@iDeathMaximuMII

7 ай бұрын

I'm a Christian & I agree with this. A couple Modern Christians in today's world look at the old Chalcedonian & Miaphysite turmoil from the 5th-7th centuries as either stupid or that it really wasn't a big deal. Letting your personal belief in the same fucking religion cause civip unrest & political discussions of said topic will & did have it's hand in the downfall of the Empire

Buddhist Rome would be so blursed. That would be so funny. Imagine Roman architectural style monestaries and monks.

@bitcoinzoomer9994

11 ай бұрын

The religion wouldn't affect anything. When Christianity came around, temples were the same Greco-Roman style they always were. That's also the reason churches look like they do today. Barbarian temples to pegan gods were simply switched to worship the ine true God.

In my view, one of the most relevant factors for the long term survival of the roman empire would be early (preferably in the time of augustus) adoption of the thematic army structure, which would kill two birds with one stone. It would fix the manpower and locality issue of the roman military, saturating both the interior and frontier with cheap(er) local forces which would prevent penetration of the frontier from spiralling into territorial collapse - this effectively emmulates the organizational advantages of feudalism over classical era state structures, as the offloading of military cost and defense onto local forces is what allowed medieval post roman states to maintain territorial control of areas to romans could not due to overcentralization. This also has the second benefit of romanizating the local populations of the provices though military service and acculturation, similar to how this occured in our time line, only with vastly vastly more people passing though the thematic armies and gradually gaining roman citizenship, language, and identity in the process. Some kind of formula where 3 generations of service in the thematic army would grant fully roman citizenship would probably have the most potent effect. The other most important part of long term roman survival is stable succession, and The most straight forward was of dealing with this is instating primogeniture. Even if primogeniture produces on average mediocre leaders compared to adopting heirs, it vastly limits the space of situations where the identity of he who has the right to rule is in question when compared to the alternative system. By the time a state becomes preiminent in its corner of the world, Instability is more destructive to survival than exceptional goverenance is beneficial - so idiot proofing the solution to who currently should be in charge should take precidence Alternatively, augustus or perhaps claudius could draft up a roman constituion where the cursus honorum becomes a legal institution, and the office of princeps/emperor is its highest station - thereby turning the senior consul into the junior emperor, and establishing a line of succession which runs through a list of persons with decades of governing experience

The based timeline. I would have kept direct children heirs though. Feel like the future emperor/empress could be raised right knowing that they’re next. Feel like it’d save time in potential civil wars letting them have a chance anyways😊

@andreamarino6010

11 ай бұрын

Just look at monarchies during any era.

@TaeSunWoo

5 ай бұрын

⁠@@andreamarino6010current governments aren’t much better 😫

@andreamarino6010

5 ай бұрын

@@TaeSunWoo yeah, but i don't support burgeois government

Didn't expect rome.

5:00 - is this AI made?

@Kalmoire

11 ай бұрын

Obviously, which is why it looks like shit lol other AI generated arts in this vid also have atrocious hollywood outfits

@mikekalinski5735

11 ай бұрын

Creeped me right out! I had to go back to make sure I didn’t just have a mini-stroke

I remember seeing somewhere that they were close to a industrial revelution and that the internal combustion engine was made in avery primitive form. I think it was only a house decoration. Might be a bad source. Dont remember.

“Augustus adopted many men to groom” -Possible History

Scenario idea: What if Japan kept their Siberian lands that they seized during the Russian civil war?

What if everything went perfect for Greece?

Please make a video about What if everything went perfect for france

consider reading into the french colony in Haiti "Saint Dominique". :y I think that would be a problem in your idea to split Rome into 4 administration areas: People wouldn't wanna be ruled over by another culture. Making all of the provinces actually speak Latin would probably be one of the smartest things to do, because with 4 different areas all calling them Rome, while having vastly different cultures, I think a secession would be highly likely. Or perhaps something like the Macedonian Renaissance in Byzanz would happen again, further pushing a secession.

Buddhism tends to be pretty compatible with other religions so I would think that Buddhism would be subject to interpretatio, maybe combining the isles of blest with Nirvanah, or something. Could probably have Tartarus, Asphodel, and Elysium as some of the various worlds one can be reborn into.

Amazing idea

I have an Idea, how about what if everything went wrong for rome?

@confusedmango6557

11 ай бұрын

No Rome...

@corporalcorgi4948

11 ай бұрын

Remulus and Romulus get sunk by Poseidon during their trip from Troy. The end.

Regarding religion, making Sol Invictus thrive at the end of the Republic would be best IMO. It's better than the roman pantheon in regards to the assimilation of foreign cults, and in the long term it could transition smoothly with a rising monotheistic religion.

Primogeniture succession was only bad in the early Empire since it'd be literal teenagers gaining absolute power, Titus and Domitian succeeded their Father and both were perfectly fine Emperors, both were also grown adults at the time of their succession.

Regarding the issue of a monotheistic religion being setup that wasn't Christianity, Rome already had the groundwork laid for the perfect candidate for that which was setup by Aurelian in 274 CE, that being the cult of Sol Invictus. Aurelian could have started a movement similar to what Akhenaten did during the 18th dynasty in Egypt in regards to Aten, the sun being something that is omnipresent in every persons life would be the ideal candidate for a monotheistic religion, not to mention there were already numerous sun cults and deities across the Roman Empire at the time from various ethnic groups such as Ara in Armenia, Belenos in Gaul, Sulis in Britain, Sunna in Germania, Helios/Apollo in Greece etc. A merging and or folding of these various sun deities into the Sol Invictus cult was also possible, in a similar manner to what we saw done with Serapis in Ptolemaic Egypt or Amun-Ra in 16th century BCE Egypt and eventually codifying into a singular cult/religion across the empire. Alternatively I could also see Zoroastrianism taking hold within the empire as well, given that is was dominate religion of the Sasanian empire which was just right across the border, there is also precedence for this as well given that Rome was not against appropriation of cultural deities, such as in the case of all the Greek deities within Roman mythology or even more appropriate in this case Mithraism. Edit: Also a video suggestion "What if Everything Went Perfect for the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth" because man a lot of things went wrong there and they went wrong badly to.

1) ideal Roman border in Europe is Vistula-Dniester. Dniester has the added advantage of being backed up by the Carpathians. Fortify that border the most, and funnel any invasions through northern Europe, so they have to go through all of the peripheral regions to get to the core. 2) If Carthage surrendered to Regulus (perhaps he offered better terms and allowed Carthage to be a relatively autonomous client state), then the waste and stress of the Second Punic War is avoided, and Carthage can stay prosperous and the enmity between the two cities is avoided. Hannibal, in this version of events, might be a highly regarded allied commander, granted citizenship, and the Barcids and other Punic aristocratic families might end up ultimately absorbed into the Roman nobility. 3) The Republic could be saved, but it has to balance representation of the army with the actual composition of the army.

5:00 bro that Ai image is terrifying

The idea of Rome lasting in some form is an interesting one. Instead of having technological advancement to a modern level greatly accelerated as is somewhat postulated, it likely would've been prevented as stagnation would've set in as it did with China as they'rd be no competition between European empires to spark innovation such as using gunpowder in weapons, which the Chinese didn't despite inventing it.

@Kingdomkey123678

2 ай бұрын

They did use gunpowder weapons, fire lances (gunpowder based flamethrowers) and gunpowder artillery where staples of the Chinese Armies. The mongols would then integrate that into their armies after they conquered the region and brought it with them to Europe It’s how gunpowder weapons were first introduced to Europe

A little appendix. Sulla was not the first roman to seize rome by force. But it was the first that did so without consequences. He enjoy a luxurious lifestyle and then retired to his roman villa when he passed away. The consequences of that is that in the future, men like caesar and pompey magnus will try to seize power more frequently knowing well that the roman republic was powerless to stop them as it was back then, hence the latter reforms by augustus

The social rift that happened with the adoption of christianity didn't happen purely because of christianity and how it worked, it was more because the act of adoption an entirely new and somewhat foreign way of life isn't exactly well looked upon by anyone. Imagine you're a US citizen, and suddenly what you considered a disruptive cult is starting to spread rapidly throughout the nation and one single event determines that it is now the main belief of the entire nation. That would cause a significant social rift, wouldn't it? And it's not like the social rifts were permanent in the roman empire anyways, once everyone adopted christianity and the nicene creed was adopted the empire was, religiously quite stable. It is only the heresies that caused any further damage, such as arianism or monophosytes. The empire could very well just stay christian and due to the mentioned proposal of the succession system making the empire ITSELF more competent and stable, the nicene creed would likely been signed much earlier and any early schism or heresies would be quickly and effectively dealt with. So I don't think christianity would be much of an issue in this alternate timeline.

If there was one time period That you could live in in human history which one would you choose

Oh hell yes. I've always wanted to see how the succession system could have been improved

What if everything went right for the sassinads What if everything went right for the rashidun caliphate What if everything went right for the Umayyad caliphate What if everything went right for the abassids

Id answer the question of religion by reorganizing the roman religion in to a less chaotic and more orderly one as well as increasing its wisdom value.

We need a video "what if everything didn't go perfect for Rome"

Next can you do scenario about ehat if micheal the brave's united romanian principalities state succeded?

Actually, while Christianity was occasionally on the receiving end of persecutions, for the most part it was generally left alone the vast majority of the time. I would also say conquering Parthia is not necessarily a bad idea. This is because conquering Parthia is not the same as directly ruling Parthia (or the Iranian Plateau). Frankly, the Romans don't need all of Persia. All they really need is Mesopotamia and any perspective Iranian Plateau based state would be neutered since Mesopotamia was the main source of wealth for them. All Rome would need to do to the Iranian Plateau is create a series of client states. These Client States wouldn't need to last forever, and in fact they most likely wouldn't. They just need to last long enough for Rome to secure Mesopotamia up to the Zagros Mountains. It is of my opinion that there are three (maybe four) types of borders that had a big impact on Roman History: Rivers, Deserts, and Mountains (and maybe Oceans). Rivers - These are probably the most well known kind of Roman borders and the most pleasing to look at. Unfortunately, and I'm sorry to have to say this, but rivers fucking suck as defensive borders! They're great for administrative borders (everything on this side is mine everything on that side is yours), but history shows that the Rhine and Danube freaking suck as defensive frontiers. Don't get me wrong, so long as the Empire is doing well internally and is able to project outward militarily, river borders are fine, but once dysfunction enters the picture and the armies that are supposed to defend the frontier turn inward, that's when rivers become nothing more than highways into the heart of the empire. Deserts - These are fine borders... until the (desert) nomad nation attacks then it kind of falls apart. Basically, Arabs, Berbers, or Moors, whatever you call these guys, they kind of make deserts into highways into the heart of the Empire. Mountains - Mountains are pretty much the best borders you can have. Sure, they're not perfect, they can be penetrated by raiding armies, but it's significantly harder to transform a raiding army into a conquering army when you have a big f*ckoff mountain between you and your home base. Mountains kind of make maintaining logistical supply lines a wee bit difficult. The Romans held the Taurus Mountains for centuries against the Arabs for this very reason. Anatolia was only lost to the Turks because of the Romans' shortsightedness, arrogance, and division. No Turkish army conquered Anatolia. My perfect PoD for the Romans would be avoiding the Assassination of Julius Caesar. Caesar planned on waging a war of conquest against the Parthians and if anyone could pull it off and make it stick it would be him. Of course, Parthia wasn't Caesar's only target. The madlad made plans to not just conquer Parthia, but also the Black Sea coast, the Pannonian Plain, and Germania. Would he actually succeed in all that? F*ck no! Parthia by itself would be a challenge to surpass Gaul and any conquest of Germania would take decades to conquer properly. After Caesar's passing and Octavian succeeding him, I could see Octavian beginning to conquer Germania, which will take the better part of the first century AD to pull off. Then once Trajan, or his analogue, rises to the Purple he begins the process of conquering Pannonia to the Carpathians. Britannia is largely ignored until Trajan, who I could see attempting to conquer a big. This would be the Dacia/Mesopotamia analogue that his successor, ALT Hadrian, might abandon. Basically, I foresee Britannia being much smaller than OTL, basically, just Kent, Middlesex, Essex, and the Iceni pushed eastward along the south coast to just past the Isle of Wight, with the Isle of Wight acting as a Roman outpost, with the rest of Roman Britannia just being a perpetual client kingdom.

11:40 It is seriously worth noting, that for the ordinary citizen, Julius was no more king like than any other leader, the more "democratic" leaders of the country were democratic, to a certain part of the population, the "upper elite" the ones with power, the ones who it really matters if they see you as beholden to their will or to be a king. Here is a Michael Parenti talk "The Assassination of Julius Caesar" from 1998, which I can not recommend enough.

Idea; what if the maritime republics of italy ( ragusa genoa venice etc) survived

I would not say, that the changed borders In Brittania and Germania would make the Empire easier to gouvern. The conques of brittania was simply necessary to protect the regions of gallia near the cost from raids, which is also the reason it was conquered in the first place. The conguest of germania on the other hand would put a huge drain on roman recources, because there was just nothing there and even though they would have had a protective river line, there would have been constant raids by germanic tribes and the danger of steppe tribes just completely oblitterating the Border.

i have an interesting idea, what if the cossacks, expanded even more than they did in our life, instead of stopping at the urals and ukraine, like what if they went further into romania and even bulgaria

I can think of one of the greatest way to make Rome perfect: Have Aurelian survive his assassination by reading the letter, have him remove the praetorian guards soon after... and we won't ever know what he would do next, but we do know it's going to make a Roman Empire live on for decades

@ffff7164

5 ай бұрын

He couldn’t fix the problems of usurpation by military governors, or prevent the germanization of the Roman military.

scenario idea: What if everything went right for the Russian Tsardom after Ivan the terrible(or maybe a bit before that)?

Hey I really like your videos. Could you make a video about what would have happend if Russia switched sides in WW1? That would be really interesting.

@polishrepublic5055

11 ай бұрын

Interesting?