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What if…
CONSTANTINE LOST THE BATTLE OF MILVIAN BRIDGE?

Under Maxenitus, some form of
paganism might have endured
in Rome for much longer

O The First Council of Nicea O The Synod of Arles O The Great Martyrdom O The Sassanids advance O A new empire
In our timeline, Constantine called The Synod considers if those Following the chaos, barbarians With the Roman Empire The Sassanids easily stop Muslim
a council of bishops to settle who acquiesced to the imperial invade and Christians follow Christ’s weakened by the barbarian expansion to the east and Islam
disputed matters of doctrine, but cult could be readmitted to the teaching of non-resistance to evil. invasions, and no stronghold at instead spreads west and south.
doctrinal niceties take second Church. In this timeline, the Church Many are killed, but several barbarian Constantinople, the Sassanid Zoroastrianism becomes the main
place to survival in the world requires lifelong penance and only chieftains later convert. The Western Empire conquers Anatolia and religion in east Asia, Islam in north
where he lost. The major dispute allows communion at the approach Roman Empire fragments into new makes its new frontier on the Africa, and Christianity spreads © Ian Hinley
is brought to a head in 329. 325 of death. 329 barbarian kingdoms. 350-400 Bosphorus. 6th-7th centuries west, north and east. 633-720
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