Saltier than Carthage (if it had been salted)

It's kind of crazy thinking about how all these countries that we think of as so different in culture, religion, etc. used to be part of one state. Obviously levels of control varied, but by this map you could travel from the Atlantic to the shores of the Caspian Sea and never leave Roman territory. But yeah I'd give a reformed Roman Empire ten minutes before we ended up with a Crisis of the Twenty-First Century.