Empire splits into western and eastern half, establishing that Rome can exist in many different pieces and still be Rome
Western half gets conquered by barbarians but still keeps doing Roman stuff and speaking Latin
Roman institutions don’t just end but slowly transition into medieval ones and Roman culture continues to influence most of Europe
Latin evolved into a bunch of languages and inserts itself into English also
The French, English, Portuguese, and Spanish all take over the world often feeling like they’re the inheritors of the legacy of Rome as they’re doing it
Everyone wants to be the new Rome
The United States independence movement starts a trend of modern democracies taking loose inspiration from the institutions of the Roman republic, even taking the idea of senators from them
Many modern democracies including the US and Canada get hyper expansionist Roman republic style
The eastern half of the Roman Empire continued to keep being the Roman Empire for another thousand years
When the Ottoman Empire finally takes over Constantinople they act like they’re inheriting the Roman Empire
The government of Turkey inherits the responsibilities of the fallen Ottoman Empire
The Catholic Church runs out of Rome as a remnant of a late empire institution
Catholicism becomes the biggest religious organization in the world with influence over world politics even in the modern era with its own micro country and observer seat at the UN
The boundaries of the Roman Empire often include places that were just heavily under the influence of Rome or paid tribute to it
Most countries in existence are allied with or under the protection of at least one country that takes heavy influence from the Roman Empire or the Roman republic or a country with a large Catholic population
Augustus succeeded in taking over the world
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