🌊 Ripple · counterfactual
What if Christianity spreads across Rome had gone differently?
100 · levant
A Jewish reform movement becomes a portable, evangelising faith moving along Roman roads.
If it had gone differently: The Roman world stays polytheist; the church that will hold medieval Europe together never forms.
What it set up
- 476The fall of Rome in the West, The Western Empire holds together; there are no barbarian kingdoms, no feudalism, no medieval Europe as we know it.
- 1096The Crusades, Western Europe stays inward-looking; the appetite for spices and silk that will send ships around Africa never develops.
- 1517The Protestant Reformation, Western Christianity stays a single church; no confessional map of Europe forms.
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