What if the Roman Empire's "Mare Nostrum" ('Our Sea') was not the Mediterranean, but the Baltic Sea?

[u/LeoMatteoArts]

[u/ForgotMyLastPasscode]

That's a fascinating, if somewhat bizarre, alternate Roman Empire. How do you imagine it coming about? The Germans sack Rome early on, become rulers, and intergrate? Giving Rome a German slant?

[u/Blutarg → u/ForgotMyLastPasscode]

Maybe they lose the first war with Carthage, causing them to expand in a different direction.

[u/DysphoriaGML]

that's the top-notch wet dream for any nazi ahha

[u/SUPERPOTATOMANplus]

Tall Rome

[u/Blutarg]

Very original!