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🌊 Ripple · counterfactual

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

476 · italy

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.

What it set up
  1. 1096The Crusades, Western Europe stays inward-looking; the appetite for spices and silk that will send ships around Africa never develops.
  2. 1150The first universities, Learning stays locked in monasteries; there is no scholarly institution for the Scientific Revolution to grow out of.

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