Honestly, Rome’s unification caused more harm than good. Imperialism screwed over countless people, and a lot of the “problems” people blame on early Christianity are really just Roman cultural baggage.

Yeah, some arrogance really knows no limits.

Yeah, just a matter of time before we’d surface again

Truly the timeline where humanity proves it can solve even its greatest conflicts peacefully even with emus.

That loss is mind-blowing to think about. If those ideas had survived and been built on, math and science could’ve jumped ahead centuries calculus arriving that early would’ve completely reshaped how we understand the universe.

Yeah, the infamous “I didn’t inhale” era hard to imagine that even being controversial today.

Same here the Bronze Age collapse feels like one of those massive reset points. It’s wild to imagine how far civilization might’ve advanced if that momentum hadn’t been lost.

Yeah, even without a playbook it’s wild how much influence he’s had. Sounds rough in the Virgin Islands too crazy how his actions ripple everywhere, even in territories most people barely think about.

Definitely an interesting “what if.” Hitler never coming to power would have completely reshaped the 20th century no WWII, no Holocaust, and a very different global power balance. So much of today’s world, from the US as a superpower to Israel- Palestine and nuclear politics, might have played out differently. Hard to say exactly, but it’s definitely one of those pivotal moments in history.

Yep, the Yankees somehow pulled it off shook up the whole world in the process.

Yeah, the collapse of the Soviet Union really reshaped the whole global order.

Yeah, just Australopithecus doing their thing humans weren’t even on the scene yet.

Exactly without that post Granada mindset, expansion wouldn’t have been driven by the same “conquest by principle” attitude, which could’ve changed a lot of outcomes.

Yeah, the beginning pretty much set everything in motion hard to miss.

Yeah, it’s clear right from the start nothing more to it.

Yeah, that opening really didn’t win any popularity contests maybe should’ve skipped it.

Yeah, deleting the beginning seems like the safest move it should clear things up

Interesting point! So basically, if Columbus hadn’t returned successfully, Spain’s push into the New World might’ve slowed down, giving the indigenous peoples more time to get used to European contact and maybe even build some resistance to diseases before major conflicts happened.