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    Lightbulb Re: Sino-roman realtions

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    What would be cool if the Roman Impire never clapsed and...
    The idea has been raised before; and a few days ago someone resurrected this topic about the same subject. The suggestion was dismissed out of hand. The fall of the Roman empire was not caused by one event, but a series of processes (top of my head: economical decline, continious border warfare, regular civil war) that sapped the strenght and stability of the empire. While I won't say Rome was doomed to fall, it seems unlikely that it would have managed to halt or reverse all these processes.

    Anyway, the question of what would happen if the empire had never fallen can simply not be answered. It is too long ago for anything but wild speculation. The empire wouldn't have gone into stasis: the world changes and an empire has to change with that, or fall. But how it would have changed we cannot predict.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ludens
    The idea has been raised before; and a few days ago someone resurrected this topic about the same subject. The suggestion was dismissed out of hand. The fall of the Roman empire was not caused by one event, but a series of processes (top of my head: economical decline, continious border warfare, regular civil war) that sapped the strenght and stability of the empire. While I won't say Rome was doomed to fall, it seems unlikely that it would have managed to halt or reverse all these processes.

    Anyway, the question of what would happen if the empire had never fallen can simply not be answered. It is too long ago for anything but wild speculation. The empire wouldn't have gone into stasis: the world changes and an empire has to change with that, or fall. But how it would have changed we cannot predict.
    I think if you make up a story about what if the Roman Impire never fell I don't think it would have to be realistic or accurate.
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    No stories ever have to be realistic. It's just that most of the people at the .org (or at least in the EB subforum of it) prefer realism.
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    Lightbulb Re: Sino-roman realtions

    Quote Originally Posted by Scott
    I think if you make up a story about what if the Roman Impire never fell I don't think it would have to be realistic or accurate.
    You are absolutly right. My apologies for my harsh tone .
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