Over the centuries the fortunes of these Kingdoms waxed and waned as they battled both the Empire and each other. In Europe, the various Germanic tribes that traditionally lived beyond the Rhine developed into a number of small Kingdoms, very much like the Germany that existed prior to original unification in 1870 in the original timeline. The United Provinces of Americana was born Towards the end of that century, a successful revolution spawned the creation of a new Republic, modelled on the ancient Roman Republic. In the eighteenth century, the North American colonies, known in Imperial terms as Romani Americana became increasingly frustrated with the high taxation rates imposed by the Empire, and also the level of Imperial interference by Rome. Eventually the Ottoman Empire establishes itself in what are today South-Eastern Europe and the Ukraine the mighty Danube River serves as the boundary between the two Empires. With Europe effectively closed to them, the Islamic armies turn their attentions eastward and succeed in conquering almost all of India.ĭue to the greater strength of the Empire, the Turkish migrations of the tenth century AD that eventually culminated in the destruction of the Byzantine Empire in the original timeline, were in this alternate history, unable to penetrate into Anatolia and instead turned north towards the Caucasus and Southern Russia.
The Empire still loses Syria and Palestine, due to losing the Battle of Yarmouk, but crucially they prevent the Arabs from conquering Egypt. With the old Empire now reunited, the long war with the Sassanid Persians at the beginning of the seventh century AD does not drain the Empire as it did originally, and consequently allows the Empire to mount a more effective defence against the armies of Islam, that burst out of Arabia soon after the Empire agreed peace terms with Persia.
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