Hi, love your blog. I was listening to the History of Rome podcast and got to the part about Julian the Apostate. If Julian hadn’t died in the Mesopotamian deserts, do you think that Christianity would have not become the major religious force it is today and would the empire have possibly stuck around for longer (due to the different sects in Christianity not tearing each other and the Empire apart)?

I think it still would have been a major religious force, it was way too big and too prominent for Julian to roll the clock back all the way. However, it might not have become as hegemonic across Europe as it became in OTL.

But I don’t know whether paganism would have prevented the divisions between Monophysites and Orthodox that weakened the Byzantine Empire, or whether the divisions instead would have been between Christians and Pagans.