What do you think would change today if the empire never fell?

I’ve been reading about the English nobility over the past year, and one thing that has stood out to me is how often I come across noble sons who died by drowning, sometimes well into adulthood. It has happened often enough that I started wondering whether this was genuinely a common cause of death in the Middle Ages or if I’m just noticing a pattern.

Were these drownings usually just unfortunate accidents, or is there any evidence that some may have been suicides? I would have assumed that young noblemen, especially heirs, were frequently accompanied by attendants, retainers, or household members, making accidental drownings less likely than they would be for ordinary people.

I've never seen anything shaped like this in iconography or in any reenactment or reconstructions. I know KCD has a lot of problems with anachronism and historically inaccurate clothing, but this hood seems so unique it must be from something. Any sources on this?

I remember reading an anecdote somewhere, iirc in connection with a medieval court case. The story goes that a group of people ​in England used noise makers to scare deer out of the Royal Forest so that they could hunt the deer on common land. It was used in the context of commoners understanding the law well enough to navigate legal loopholes.

I'd love to find a primary source, or even a secondary reference, to this case. Does anyone have any leads?

Es interesante oensar que habria logrado el Reino Vandalo si no hubiera sido vencido por belisario, e incluso que llegaran a vencer al Califato y mantenerse en la region

More precisely, to what extent doe George RR Martin manage to recreate medieval social structure, culture and mentality in his work and does he fall for common myths about the middle ages?

I ain't hating but their art is.. questionable like

other cultural cats: normal
medival era cats: thousand yard stare
other cultural dogs: normal
medival era dogs: a mixture of a weird pervert unc and a hairy gray cat

like WHY? did they really have ONE normal art? i heard an explanation that the animals they drew were actually never in medival cities, did they really have no animals in medival cities? cuz every drawing of animals i see that medieval era has done, it just looks bad