The Eternal City - 500 AD

Alternative titles - West is Best; East is Least; Rome if you want to (you have no idea how much I want to change the name to this)

Now, Germans, don't laugh, that's what the Romans called the Slavs! Seriously

So this is an alternate timeline where the Eastern Roman Empire fell instead of the Western Roman Empire. Essentially the Huns swoop down into the Eastern Roman Empire causing all sorts of damage down there, and then various Germanic Tribes swoop down following the Huns; The Goths, Vandals, Sciri, Macromans, and Lombards. While the Huns never took Constantinople, the Sciri were, making it the capital of their kingdom. Meanwhile the Sassanians were able to take the Levant and made the Goths into tributaries (although not quite out right vassals) of their Empire. Western Rome swooped in and took Egypt back.

The Germans ending so far south and East has caused a split between Northwestern and Southeastern Germans, forming Three Germanic groups: Northern Germans (the Nords), Central or Western Germans (Saxons, Franks, and Angles) and the Southern Germans (All those grouped around the ERE). Dividing the Northwestern and Southern Germans are the Slavs, who make it all the way to the Rhine, although notably never headed to Yugoslavia

In Rome itself, the Empire is slowly decentralizing. The Augustus, the Emperor and highest man in Rome, slowly lost power to the Caesars, the Governors of Gaul, Iberia, Carthage, Egypt, and Illyria (The Augustus of Rome was also the Caesar of Italy)

I should also mention the evolution of Christianity: In OTL the Catholic Church was centralized and independent while the Orthodox Church was decentralized and subject to Caesaropapism, Emperor over the Church. ITTL, the Catholic Church is still centralized but subject to Caesaropapism, where the Augustus is able to chose the Pope, who was able to unite the Empire religiously, outside of Egypt where the Patriarch of Alexandria was still able to rule religiously. Thus, the Caesardom (Governance) of Egypt was exempt from being Catholic, although the Augustus and Pope both want to change this eventually. Catholicism is more or less limited to the Roman Empire.

In the East, the Orthodox church is odd, and differs from state to state, but the 'true' Patriarchs, those of Constantinople and Antioch are more or less independent from the German Kings. The German Kings in turn try to set up official religious heads in their own kingdoms, but this has failed spectacularly in the Gothic, Sciri and Vandal states (most notably the Northern Gothic King also tried to declared himself as Patriarch of his realm, but the people still instead go under the religious following of either the Patriarch of Constantinople or the Patriarch of Antioch). In the Macromanni and Lombard kingdoms the setting up of their own Patriarchs tied not to the Kingdom but rather to the Pentarchy which did succeed. So the 'true' Orthodoxy Churches are independent and well followed, while the secular/nonindependent Orthodox churches aren't really followed.

I can't wait to see the rise of the Arabs, Bulgars, and Magyars, that's going to be interesting to see

I also made a video of me making the map, but I don't know when it's going to be up