Just a bit of a fun thread.

What do people think the antiquity or indeed the world today would have been like had Rome never existed? Would there have been a Samnite Empire? Would we all be speaking a Celtic language now? Would the world have been conquered by Carthage?

Let the wild theories fly! I offer a balloon for the most convincing theory.


(And btw I understand we can never really know so please don't be dull and just post "Well we can never know", give it a try).