🌊 Ripple · counterfactual
What if the Roman Republic had gone differently?
-509 · italy
Rome expels its kings and builds a constitution of elected magistrates, a Senate and citizen law.
If it had gone differently: Italy stays a patchwork of small kingdoms; there is no republic, no Senate, no working model of citizenship for Europe to inherit.
What it set up
- -27The Roman Empire, The Mediterranean is never unified under one law, road network and language; Europe has no shared classical spine.
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