What If There Had Never Been a Roman Empire?

[Strategos Alexandros]

All I have to say is that the entire history of mankind is based on the question "what if". Just what would have happened if Alexander died much later and really conquered the whole world (including the romans)?

Then the Vandals, Goths etc. would have conquered that and life would be pretty much the same except that our languages would be based on Greek.

[Red_Russian13]

I've always been keen on "alternate" history questions like this. This one is as hard to answer as any of them though, because the cogs of history are huge and complex. Break off even a small tooth, and you have a completely different machine. It's hard to say. One could interpret you question as asking if Caesar and others hadn't set in motion a chain that brought low the Republic. What if the Republic carried on? I assume, however, that you mean what if no Rome came into being, right? I don't like to think of it. That's how much I love Rome...

I'd definitely be interested in what the expertise here thinks though. I'm barely qualified to be an amateur amateur historian.