>Caesar avoids the Ides of March and is saved from assassination

>Be Swede
>Wake up
>Remember your far off brethren destroyed Rome
>Remember your ancestors pillaged and burned through Europe
>Remember how your cousins started two world wars and wrecked India
>Remember a bit on how everyone just decided to wreck the Balts and how they all had it comming

>.Feels.good.being.barbarian.scum.jpg

>>767874
>be snowape savages incapable of creating civilization
>take pride in destroying other civilizations instead

GOTHS GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY EMPIRE

>>767847
even if he avoids the Ides of March he would have been assassinated later, its not like if Caesar didn't show up in the forum they would have just put their knives away and gave up, they were all committed to killing him and would have just plotted another assassination.

Besides it was Augustus that consolidated the power and laid the framework to allow Rome to swell up to the size that it did.

>>767938
This also germania was even more wild than Britain and Gaul it wouldn't be feasible to conquer they tried but it's just not worth it

>if only Tiberius wasn't a pussy Rome would have conquered Germany

Reee

>>767992
There was no point in conquering it though like they were so tribal they wouldn't submit and it would impossible to maintain and would have just over extended resources that could be better used in more civilized parts of the world

>>767884
May i stay please? To komfy to just go away

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>>767847
>Constantine and Rotrude marry as planned
>Their son inherits both the ERE and HRE
>Reunited Empire drives the Caliphate out of Spain, North Africa and the Levant
>Liberates Persia too, because why not
>The church never splits
>Glorious Roman empire lives on to this day, with the A E S T H E T I C of late antiquity


>This never happened

>>768063
West Rome didn't really have succession laws so someone could have just claimed they were emperor Started a civil war then during the civil war barbarians and Muslims take advantage attack both empires boom east Rome doesn't even make to 1000

>>768008
>so tribal they wouldn't submit
why not ?
Sure, there would have been a few revolts, but nothing that couldn't be put down with good commanders heading the legions and reasonnable administrators ruling germania.
Then they can slowly civilize and urbanize the germans and make it a second gaul.
It was already well on its way when Varus ruined everything.

Resources would be expended, but you dpn't build an empire with short term investments. And having uncontrolled tribes of warlike barbarians at your very long border costs resources too. It would have been more economical in the long run to shorten the border and put germany under direct control.

>>768093
It would just make another border with barbarians like the Slavs and Danes and varus wasn't the only one who failed germania was essentially romes Vietnam

>>767847
>Caesar
>conquering Parthia
Top kek

Fucking impossible

>>768093
Only you're not actually shortnening the border, but lengthening it toward an even harder to tame area. What, do you think there were no barbarians east of the Elbe?

>>770941
Unlike crassus, Caesar was a good general

>>770941
Why? The romans made a habit of wrecking th parthians during the empire, what would have been different with Caesar?

>>771046
Danube to elbe is shorter than danube to rhine.
And raids from the east would be easier to counter with more space to retreat/pursue more men in the empire, and gaul being safe and productive.

>>768092
>Muslims
>implying there would have been the cultural and military vacuum present for Islam to slot itself into

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>>770941
Caesar had a fucking massive force prepared, and he would have learned from the mistakes of Crassus and Antony. He also wanted to move through the mountains where the Parthian cavalry advantage would be gone and he would have the chance to poke them and study their fighting styles firsthand.

>we'll never see Rome stretching from Gibraltar to the Indus river

>>771058
The Romans more often instigated and invaded the Parthians doesn't magically equate to constantly "beating them". Also the Parthians do not fight remotely like the Gaulic or Celtic peoples and its quite frankly historical wank to assume he'd magically storm over the Arsacid Dynasty.

>>771054
What's your excuse for Marc Antony then?

>>767874
>Be Italian
>Wake up
>Remember northern barbarians destroyed Rome
>Remember northern barbarians today are being conquered by middle eastern barbarians

>>.Feels.good.being.roman.jpg

>be Mark Antony
>try to "avenge" Crassus
>get BTFO
>cannot even defeat a single foreign enemy
>become alcoholic
>get BTFO by Octavian
>an hero

Is there a bigger alpha/beta dichotomy than Caesar/Antony?

Caesar would have conquered Parthia, he was far greater than Crasshit and Antony

>>767847
it would have only delayed the inevitable fate of the empire at best, i don't know what you're so sore about

>>775331
>Through his youngest daughters, Antony would become ancestor to most of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, the very family which as represented by Octavian Augustus that he had fought unsuccessfully to defeat.

Had fruitful loins but

>>774810
Cassius of all people destroyed a Persian army. Caesar, who was much more able than Mark Antony, would have had more success in protecting his supply lines and would have been overall more prudent.

>>775327
Just you watch, Hispania was conquered and Gaul was almost conquered by those Middle Eastern barbarians. Italia is next.

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>>775580
>Italia is next.
You wish faggot

Are there actually idiot in here that think a Roman conquest of Persia would last more than 10 years? The place was so fucking far away and it would be such a money sink that it wouldn't be worth it. And the Persians would just have endless rebellions 1500 miles away from Rome. They could never have held it

>>775860
Arabs did it with maybe 1/4th of the troops Caesar had assembled

Romans occupied the parthians capital at least 5 times in their wars. They could win

Also the Persian general who beat crassus had just been executed because the parthian emperor was paranoid and feared a coup, he didn't trust his own staff. It was the perfect opportunity to attack

>>775898
>Arabs did it
Arabs did it to a Persian Empire that had lost half its population to fucking plague ravaging its heartlands for 7 years before the Arabs started invading the Persian lands, on top of major flooding and loss of farmland causing rampant cases of starvation.

Arabs did not fucking also have to extend their logistic lines or supplies from Europe into Asia and lived relatively near core Persian lands; i.e. the early Caliphate Arabs were essentially the equivalent of Germanics and Vandals or Goths in Germania flowing into Rome i.e. Persia.

No, its not remotely the same shit comparing what the Arabs did to Caesar.

>>775392
You mean when the Arsacids were already declining and going through multiple civil wars? Wow, that's impressive.