What if the Roman Empire had gone differently?

Augustus turns the exhausted Republic into a single Mediterranean state that lasts four centuries.

If it had gone differently: The Mediterranean is never unified under one law, road network and language; Europe has no shared classical spine.

The real history on Wikipedia ↗

Later turning points that leaned on the Roman Empire. Change it in the game and the ripples reach all of these.

1. -509The Roman Republic. Without it, Italy stays a patchwork of small kingdoms; there is no republic, no Senate, no working model of citizenship for Europe to inherit.
2. 100Christianity spreads across Rome. Without it, The Roman world stays polytheist; the church that will hold medieval Europe together never forms.
3. 476The fall of Rome in the West. Without it, The Western Empire holds together; there are no barbarian kingdoms, no feudalism, no medieval Europe as we know it.