If Rome Hadn't Fallen: What Might Have Happened if the Western Empire Had Survived

Explores how the survival of Rome might have altered world history from dealing with Viking raids to the discovery of America.This is a fascinating exploration of how the history of Europe, and indeed the world, might have been different if the Western Roman Empire had survived the crises that pulled it apart in the 4th and 5th centuries.Dr Timothy Venning starts by showing how that survival and recovery might plausibly have happened if several relatively minor things had been different. He...