by CipherHistory
"In 476 AD, the Western Roman Empire was meant to die. I decided to cancel the apocalypse." A history grad student dies in a library shooting, only to wake up in the body of Romulus Augustulus—the 14-year-old boy doomed to be the last Emperor of Rome. Bankrupt, surrounded by mutinous barbarian mercenaries, and targeted by assassins, history says Romulus has less than a year on the throne before the Dark Ages begin. But history didn't account for a 21st-century scholar introducing ruthless modern economics, industrial standardization, and fractional reserve banking to the 5th century. Watch a dying empire transform into a terrifying superpower
