imagine the ancient roman empire didn't fall and instead survived as a state, in some more or less unified form, across revolutions and reformations, collapses and restorations, invasions and conquests, civil wars and reunifications, throughout the ages, from the ancient world, via middle ages, the renaissance, to the modern era, the first world war, the birth of nation states, the second world war, until our own present days (inb4 alt history timelines: i said "imagine")
pretty wild, right?
well, that fiction above, about which i'm sure there are novels out there, is not fiction but normal history if you just switch out one detail
>>2798china is the rome of asia
cope