🌊 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 made possible
Later turning points that leaned on the Roman Republic. Change it in the game and the ripples reach all of these.
- -27The Roman Empire. Without it, The Mediterranean is never unified under one law, road network and language; Europe has no shared classical spine.
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