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I found the section where they ask "what would happen if Rome didn't fall" and then they speculate on China for a while to be very annoying. We know the answer
by dmarchand90 3y ago
I found the section where they ask "what would happen if Rome didn't fall" and then they speculate on China for a while to be very annoying.
We know the answer. Because only half the empire fell. Constantinople continued another thousand years after the fall of Rome. So there's your answer, you would get something like Constantinople.
- mikhailfranco 3y agoA more interesting counterfactual would be: What if Rome did not Christianize?
- dmarchand90 3y agoHard to say. The answer has been a bit contaminated since the late 1700's because of Gibbon's attacks when he wrote "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". I strongly suspect that the results would be exactly the same, modulo the butterfly effects, meaning everything would be totally different in every possible way. Actually we have 'zero' clue (and we never will) know how sensitive history is to 'thermal' noise, as we are stuck running N=1 simulation.
- mikhailfranco 3y agoGibbon's
- dmarchand90 3y agoUgh so embarrassing, thank you