What if the roman empire had never fallen?

Question

What if the roman empire had never fallen. Would we be more advanced? Would the two world wars have happened? How different would our world today be?

Answer 1

but it did fall,and that is history,so i cant speculate on how
advance or not we would be,the thing is the world still the same,what changes is people attitudes

Answer 2

If the Roman Empire had never fallen, we'd all be speaking Latin. As far as being MORE??? advanced, do you actually think that we ARE advanced?!!!

If the Roman Empire had never fallen, there would be no war: Pax Romana! That's why that turkey in the W. House wants to build an Amerikkkan Empire, so that a Pax Amerikkkana will prevail.

The problem with an empire's 'pax' is that it never lasts (although Rome did give a good showing!); and the 'pax' isn't all that great, anyhow. In fact, any empire's 'pax' is always going to be the same: DO WHAT I SAY OR I KILL YOU.

How different would our world be today?

Well, there'd be no war because Rome would be so strong no one could fight a war against Rome. So there would probably be a lot of terrorism, like now!

Answer 3

If the Roman Empire had never fallen, and answering this question on the basis that it was/is at the height of its dominance (it was falling the moment it was not at its peak so it is pretty fair to answer in this manner), then neither world wars would have occured. Rome controlled the main 'players' in both wars and, if they controlled both sides then they would have been on the same side. A better place? Nobody can answer that properly, a billion decisions by a billion people would have occured and who knows what would have transpired?
If the great learning of the Romans had continued maybe they would have learnt how we could all live in peace and harmony, or cured cancer; or maybe someone would have invented a bomb a million times greater than a nuclear bomb and, for whatever reason, used it.Or a germ that escaped.....
Where does speculation end?

Answer 4

If the Roman Empire had never fallen, we'd all be speaking Italian. I doubt most of the wars that have happened in Europe in the past 2,000 years would have happened because we and the Europeans would have been one nation.

If a government wants to rule over a single landmass (and an insignificant island just to the north of the landmass), it's easier if they don't have separate identities so if the Roman Empire had become stronger instead of falling, they would have encouraged us to think of ourselves as Romans.

Christianity might still have emerged but the leading belief system could possibly have been the Roman pantheon. We might have had a temple to Zeus at the end of the Road.

Our language and architecture would have been different because the Normans wouldn't have invaded our shores because, basically, they'd be Romans too, there wouldn't have been any point in invading an island that was already part of the Empire, it would be like The British Army deciding to invade The Shetlands.

Answer 5

~For the Roman Empire not to have fallen, it would have had to been an entirely different empire than that which actually existed, so you question is moot. More to the point, "what modifications by the Romans would have been necessary to preserve and perpetuate their empire". Those changes would have made the empire unrecognizable, but, first and foremost, the Romans would have had to have allied with and assimilated (or been assimilated by) their Teutonic cousins. Since western history has be dictated by the Teutons since the fall of Rome (actually since before the fall, since it was the Teutons that knocked Rome down), not much would be different today - although we may have gotten here faster.

Answer 6

Some remnants of the Empire still remain: roads, calendars, government. A lot has changed and not so much. I'm guessing we would have advanced even further, and would've kept the polytheistic deities alive. No "prophets" would've been needed. Christianity really did ruin it. Italy would still be the center of the World (even though I consider that anyway). What we call technological advancements would've far surpassed anything; I believe space travel would've been attained long before and we would've not surpressed contacts with other beings. I think we would exchange ideas and general culture from all over, but Rome would stand as the formidable, dominant role model. Wow, what a cool question! Anyway, just what I think-ciao! ~N

Answer 7

Roman candles would have been called just candles.

Our maps would have italy at the center.

Greater class division.

Two world superpowers. - Cause I'm fairly sure an empire as expansive as Rome would force a lot of other countries to band together. Probably Africa? I dunno.

Another prominent religion

A visit from the starship enterprise aiding the Christian movement

Answer 8

The roman empire was itself effectively a world war, it was at constant war with the entire world, known and unknown. Conquest and conquer and drink and be merry, I don't think this behavior would have led to better advancements, just crueler and bloodier sports. Lion feedings, gladiators... I could go on and on but needless to say the world would be a much worse place to live in.

Answer 9

I have some bad news for you, my child. The Roman Empire has always been more alive and erect than ever before. Why do you think most of the former new world {AMERICA} has kept sacred all of the traditions of ROMAN government and literature, even the days of the week???

Answer 10

We would have been all Romans and the world would be a boring place to live! The fact that we are all different makes it interesting to compete against each other.
Look at George bush. He enjoys bombing children, women, disabled people and all that moves. Under Romans this would not happen. how boring! Also, we won't have any jokes about Bush or Blair!!

Answer 11

Personally, they were civilization's first superpower and knowing how strong they were then, they would probably double in economic strength as well as military power; since practically no one stopped them on the battlefield. And you have to consider the fact that they would have most likely been our allies during world 2. Considering that Rome loathed the fact that one man could wield so much power, for example Mussolini. And that tradition would've been in affect since the Cesar days. From that being said, i firmly believe they would have been on our side against the axis powers. I also believe they would have been more influential in technological advances, since they improved the chariot. But thats what i think.