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Editor says, what if the Romans had lost the decisive Battle of Chalons, would Western Europe have been lost to the pagan armies of Attilla the Hun?
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In 451, in the chaotic night Battle of Chalons-en-Champagne, King Theodoric I was thrown from his horse and then trampled by his own cavalary; immediately afterwards, his son Thorismund withdrew the Visigoth army from the field.
Watch the Youtube animated Clip of the Battle of Chalons 
The Last of the RomansAbandoned by his Frankish allies, the Roman legions of general Flavius Aetius were faced with annihalation by the Hunnic army of Attila (pictured). The Roman strategy of building a Christian alliance against the Pagans had failed, and the legions withdrew, quitting Gaul altogether.
"The Last of the Romans" would return to Italy to overthrew the Emperor Valentinian, launching a desperate attempt to save the Western Roman Empire from destruction ...
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~ Aetius might have been a better Emperor than Valentinian...he could hardly have been much worse.
~ Hmmmm, the main impact here would be the near destruction of Christianity which intern would change much of the middle ages, without it to unite Europe could they hold off the vikings and the Turks? What we call The crusades might still happen, though they would definitely be a lot different then what they were.
Of course it's possible that Christianity might still survive to spread throughout europe but Rome may note be the center of it.
~ Could Arianism be established as the default/primary version of European Christianity? There is a good chance that the Huns would adopt it (eventually).
~ True...I imagine Celtic Christianity would be in a much better position to survive, but so would a lot of so-called heresies - the Gnostics, etc. Constantinople would likely have become the center of Christianity; most of the early Councils - Nicaea, Ephesus - were in that area anyway. Whatever the outcome, without the central authority of Rome, I don't think that Christianity on the continent would survive the Islamic tide. Maybe the British Isles, and possibly the Norse once they come in contact with the Irish.
~ Attila is usually spelled with one L.
Apartfrom thata minor quibble, this is an interesting divergence. In such a world, not only variant Christianities but other religions now vanished from our world might have survived--among them Mithraism, which at one point had been a strong rival to Christianity within the Roman Empire.
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