Both are true, if simplified, and you didn't contradict anything I said. Rome was never able to govern Germania and their northward expansion was halted. That effectively halted their eastward expansion, since they could never be secure on their land routes to the east, and always had to play back-and-forth between incursions on the northern and eastern borders. If anything, you could say that Germany was conquered culturally by Christianization and from back door assimilation through the Carolignians.
Byzantium was powerful, but limited. It was never able to live up to its occasional bursts of expansionist ambitions. Its history can be called one long retreat, and it endured only because of Constantinople's walls. In that it is much like Tevinter, it seems, since the same is said of Minrathous.
I don't want to see Tevinter ended. That would be bad for southern Thedas, and if Mehmet is the Qun then it would be really, really bad. But, I'd like to see it continue to be humbled, for its own good and that of its neighbors.
It's nice having two of Thedas's scariest powers facing off against each other, isn't it? 
I would love to see a Tevinter/Qunari battle in action, however. Not like Iron Bull's mission, but a full-scale naval conflict. Mages, dreadnoughts, marines, funny hats and doggie paddling Qunari.
I don't see any way for a Dragon Age game to take place in Tevinter without getting much darker than Inquisition was without changing Tevinter itself, however. That's not a bad thing, though. DA does dark and complex very well.
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