What if the fall of Rome in the West had gone differently?

The last western emperor is deposed; Roman Europe fragments into successor kingdoms.

If it had gone differently: The Western Empire holds together; there are no barbarian kingdoms, no feudalism, no medieval Europe as we know it.

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Later turning points that leaned on the fall of Rome in the West. Change it in the game and the ripples reach all of these.

1. 1096The Crusades. Without it, Western Europe stays inward-looking; the appetite for spices and silk that will send ships around Africa never develops.
2. 1150The first universities. Without it, Learning stays locked in monasteries; there is no scholarly institution for the Scientific Revolution to grow out of.