What if Byzantium kept control over Italy?

The empire of Byzantium was undoubtedly the true heir to Rome, but the empire, for all of its grandeur, only held control over the homeland of the Roman Empire for a few years in the 6th century. So what if Byzantium kept the legacy of Rome in Rome alive?
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[DeanMonsieur]

Keep up the good work 🫡
Sound & map quality are impeccable 🔥

[morsecode]

“Byzantium” wasn’t a successor, it WAS Rome - more specifically, the surviving Eastern provinces. It was the exact same entity legally, just with different language and culture.

Successors would be countries like Russia, Austria, and the Ottomans.

[SAR_DUS]

Important to note, many dynasty’s in this timeline will be less German due to the fact their are less potential suitors that can’t enforce one kingdoms claim over another, which 100% guaranteed means no Georgian / Victorian / Windsor Britain and potentially means no Hapsburg Spain or Burgundy which has drastic implications on history going forward.

[finlandball]

Who knew that the Byzantine Empire simply keeping Italy would result in an ultra THICC version of Germany being born like 600 years early…

[eidoneverchoosen]

Love germany calls themselves the holy Roman empire while Byzantium can claim they are Rome as they have the coty if Rome.

[SuperminerPlays]

This would be one crazy Crusader Kings 3 game.

[sheepman]

Did bro just say "a more ethnically diverse balkan" 😨

[th_Law]

> A more ethnically diverse Balkans

Oh no

[nealjroberts]

The lingua franca for the Avars was already Slavic by the time of Charlemagne. This would allow for a Bulgarian style empire centred on Alt-Hungary as a mirror to the Frankish one.
A reduced Lombardy would mean different splits to the Frankish Empire which could mean an actual Burgundian Kingdom lasting.

[CannonYT]

_Congratulations on 1K subs and 10, 000 views!_

[consulargaming]

Honestly dude you have a lot of potential, I say good luck to you, I always wanted to be an alternate history YouTuber myself

[mappingshaman]

3:59 the sassanids co existing with charlemagne? You do realise charlemagne ascended the throne over a hundred years after the muslims conquered the sassanids right? For that matter, if charlemagne exists why do the byzantines have north africa and southern spain when that should be muslim by the time of charlemagne?

[micahistory]

congratulations on 1000 subscribers! This scenario was super interesting and unique. I would like a Part 2

[ricardogomes]

To be honest I’m surprised
The improvements you have made ever since you picked up history 2.0 project are astonishing.
It doesn’t even look like the same channel anymore.❤

[Winter-Stripe]

Just found you and I love your video style.

[Meirstein]

Keeping Italy would have been far more trouble than it was worth. The urban infrastructure of the peninsula was utterly devastated by the Gothic Wars, causing the population and economic potential of the region to plummet.

[VisionnaireJulius]

This was a great improvement in sound!

[Chance_Rice]

Even if Italy/Roman see kept it's western liturgy it would pretty much be western rite Orthodoxy

[TaeSunWoo]

People need to start saying medieval or just eastern Roman Empire but still nicely produced video

[gregoryturk]

Nice video just subscribed hope to see more from you soon :)