I'd like to throw this out there as it's something that I often think about, and I would love to hear what the serious people on the EB forum have to say. It's two questions really:

1. Given for the sake of argument that there had never been a Roman Empire, what do you think the most likely (realistic) reason would have been, e.g. Brennus, Hannibal, Pyrrhus, etc? Your EB campaign may give you some ideas here.

2. What would our world be like if there never had been a Roman Empire?


Of course it's all total speculation, but there are some things that we could say with confidence. Spanish, French, Italian of course would never have developed. But what about English? Or Christianity? Or representative democracy? What would today's political boundaries be? And going back in history, would Attila have stopped where he did? The Turks? Would technological progress have been faster or slower? And on and on.

Just thought it might be more interesting than the usual spam. And no, it's not an "I hate the Romani" thread, so don't go there.