What if the Roman Empire didn't fell? Or atleast was delayed : Othor Games

» Wed Sep 26, 2012 9:12 am

I think Hannah Montana would have been a bit taller. That's about as good a speculation as any.

» Wed Sep 26, 2012 2:01 pm

Errr, not really, yes they had the name 'The Holy Roman Empire' but there was nothing Roman about them and they in no form, shape or way carried on the western half of the Roman Empire. Most of its territories where in Germany, where the Roman Empire at its height possessed little to no territory in.

It still included all of Italy and the Popes were the ones to call it "The Holy Roman Empire." It in a sense rebounded and expanded. But yeah I agree there are differences and it didn't become the Holy Roman Empire until a couple hundred years after the Western Roman Empire fell.

Yes. But the collapse of the Western Empire placed Western Europe into a dark age, And showed that the golden age of Rome will never come again since The Eastern Empire was slowly crumbling since then.

"The Dark Ages" weren't an age of total darkness as in no advances. When the Western Empire fell there was alot of crap, but things did rebound and science and technology advanced.

» Wed Sep 26, 2012 8:12 am

What would happen?

We'd have some spectacular architecture.

» Wed Sep 26, 2012 5:58 am

The Romans still would've fell around the same time. If the empire stayed together it still would've crumpled because how would the Romans deal with the Christian problem. It wouldn't be pretty.

» Wed Sep 26, 2012 9:47 am

The Romans still would've fell around the same time. If the empire stayed together it still would've crumpled because how would the Romans deal with the Christian problem. It wouldn't be pretty.

The Roman Empire made Christianity their religion.

» Wed Sep 26, 2012 12:18 pm

It still included all of Italy

Again; no, only the Northern parts of Italy above the Papal states where under their control; this excludes of coarse, Venice and its territories, everything to the south was completely free of the Holy Roman Empire.

» Wed Sep 26, 2012 2:29 am

"The Dark Ages" weren't an age of total darkness as in no advances. When the Western Empire fell there was alot of crap, but things did rebound and science and technology advanced.

True. Europe did slowly began to improve itself after The Western Empire's collapse. (Especially after the crusades which increased trade with Asia and during the Rennesaince, which I probably spelled wrong because i'm tired, which revived interest in Greek and Roman arts.) However, it was very little. Thankfully, the Dark ages was only part of the middle ages and Europe began to see slow but noticeable improvements since then, but the Dark ages did stalled Advancement on technology. So That's why I believed if the Western Empire lived on for atleast a couple more centuries, we'd be more advance by now. (But this is just speculation.)