View Poll Results: Which empire was the greatest?
England 27 19.85%
Spain 3 2.21%
Germany 3 2.21%
Russian Empire/Soviet Union 6 4.41%
Roman Empire/Italy 33 24.26%
Japanese Empire 1 0.74%
France 1 0.74%
Greece 3 2.21%
Mongol Empire 11 8.09%
United States of America 17 12.50%
Ottoman Empire 1 0.74%
Lithuanian Great Duchment 2 1.47%
Zululand 2 1.47%
Aztec Empire 1 0.74%
Mayan Empire 2 1.47%
Korea 0 0%
India 1 0.74%
China 15 11.03%
Messopotamia 1 0.74%
Persia 1 0.74%
The Netherlands 1 0.74%
Egypt 2 1.47%
Arab Kalifat 1 0.74%
Portugal 1 0.74%
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Old July 20, 2002, 05:40   #151
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Oh so it's American Georgia after all...
So You regret that You are in the States or only that You lost
and didn't become independant THEN?
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No Byzantine? WTF is wrong with you?? The Byzantine stood much much longer than ancient Rome.
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To Dino:

BBC, a very well and respected news broadcast, had a special the other day on Alexander the Great. It was an excellent 4 episode documentary that followed his footsteps from Vergina to India. Now all the time the guy that was referring to them as Greeks, which together with all the links and statements From Pari, Marko and Paikti should suffice.

On the topic at hand I'd go for the British Empire in terms of size. Last year the leaders of countries that were (are?) British colonies got together, these countries amount to more than a staggering 2 billion people .

I am not sure what you mean with German Empire? And one notable abscence is that of the Austro-Hungarian Empre that once stopped the Ottomans in Vienna and a second one is The Byzantine Empire.

But still you could not lessen any of the named empires they all had and their influences in their times.

I'd go for British, Roman, Chinese, Mongols, Greeks (under Alexander). But my prediction is that the American "Empire", like Tingkai said will at one point become the greatest, the prerequisites are there and the times are ripe.
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Sava, Byzantines are Romans
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No, actually they aren't... they considered themselves the continuation of the Roman Empire, but they were not Romans... man, that was almost signature material Heresson...
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In this case, English aren't English and Americans aren't Americans... It's the same state as the one of Caesar's and
Marcus Aurelius', just long after it. The language changed and everything changed, but it was evolution that must have lead to one place or another.
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No, actually they aren't... they considered themselves the continuation of the Roman Empire, but they were not Romans... man, that was almost signature material Heresson...
Sava, the "Byzantine Empire" is term coined in modern times to refer to the Eastern Roman Empire. Actually, the Eastern Roman Empire simply called themselves the Roman Empire or Romania - and Constantinople was officially "New Rome."

Regardless of whether they spoke Latin or Greek, they were "Roman."
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No Byzantine? WTF is wrong with you?? The Byzantine stood much much longer than ancient Rome.
Hmm? barely i'd say, the Byzantines were still there in the 13the century etc, but they had no real power anymore... in the end all they had left is is Constantinople and a few spots of land... under Justinianus (in the 7th century or so?) they did regain large portions of the former western roman empire but after the death of this great emperor they started losing land again..

All in all I'd say the Byzantines weren't that powerful..
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Sumer and Akkad, the first Mesopotamian 'empires' deserve to be mentioned as well, for their time they had an unbelievable technological advance and structure, they came before the Egyptians..

in terms of size i would say
-Rome and Byzantines
-Macedonia
-Inca empire
-British
-Spanish
-Turkish
-Middle-age China

btw i would hardly call America one of the greatest empires... it has no empire

there's the US and that's all... you need more to be a great empire!! The US is a big country though
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Trajanus, et al., even after the fall of West to the barbarian horde, the Eastern Empire still considered the lands non under "occupation" by the Germans to be part of the Empire. The King of the Franks, Clovis was appointed consul late in his career. The Franks, as Catholics, were an ally of the East in Justinian's war against non Catholic German and Gothic tribes of the West. But they failed to help - then.

A couple of centuries later, though, when the Eastern Empire's fortunes began to wane against the new occupiers of Italy, the Lombards, the Pope sought the assistance of the Franks. Pepin, the Mayor of the Palace, struck a deal. He was annointed King, and the Franks put down the Lombards.

The cozy relationship between the Franks and the Pope only grew from that point. In collaboration, Pepin's son, Charles (the great, aka, Karl de Grosse or Charlemagne) conquered far and wide to spread the Catholic faith - Justinians original mission. In 800, when Irene, a woman, held the throne in Constantinople, the Pope appointed Charles to be the Western Emperor.

Charles did not want to accept the throne from the Pope. So he sought and was approved as Western Emperor by Irene's successor.

The Western Empire, later called the Holy Roman Empire, continued until 1806, when the Emperor abdicated under pressure from the new Emperor, himself crowned by the Pope, Napoleon.

The story really doesn't end there. In a sense, Hitler was trying to restore the Holy Roman empire in his Third Reich. Had Germany won the war, I believe Hitler would have sought out the Pope for an "official" coronation as Emperor. But, of course, this is pure speculation. I just extrapolated from trends.

The current effort to form the EU is simply the most recent effort to restore the Roman Empire, IMHO.
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I bet, that he'll never find country of Georgia on the World map and that he absolutely sure that Georgia of USA is older then country Georgia.

One more comment: Coca-Cola is urine, CNN is sucks too.

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Don't stereo type my friend it is unseemly. BTW not only could I find Georgia on a map but I could probably find just about any country in the world, tell you its capital, and a fair bit of history for each one.

Saras: you are right I've never been to the former USSR but I have been to Poland, Bulgaria, and I spent eight months in Yugoslavia so I have, tangential, experience with a few former soviet countries. It is still a far cry from the USSR but a stereo type of the American south called for a stereo type of former communist countries. No hard feeligns I hope.
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"Holy Roman Empire" wasn't in any sense a continuation of Roman Empire. "Byzantine" Empire was continuation of both western and eastern Roman tradition.
Byzantines never accepted silly western claims to the Roman
heritage. They approved imperial title of those self-and-pope-claimed emperors, but never approved their "Roman" title. The all case started because dumb Frank didn't consider Irene the emperor. In another words, claiming that HRE was Roman Empire is sexist!
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Heresson, if Soviet Union wanted Poland to be part of it, would you thought it is good?
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What? That we would become part of it )SU) or SU itself?
Anyway why are You asking?
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"Holy Roman Empire" wasn't in any sense a continuation of Roman Empire. "Byzantine" Empire was continuation of both western and eastern Roman tradition.
Byzantines never accepted silly western claims to the Roman
heritage. They approved imperial title of those self-and-pope-claimed emperors, but never approved their "Roman" title. The all case started because dumb Frank didn't consider Irene the emperor. In another words, claiming that HRE was Roman Empire is sexist!
I agree that the Eastern Emperors never acknowledged the new Emperors in the West as Augusti. Their mistake. Political union with the West would have done the East quite a lot of good as they faced their own barbarian problems with the Turks.
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Edward Gibbon, the author of "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", once claimed that the Byzantine Empire 'hadn't done a single progress for the humanity". I tend to agree here as I think the Byzantine history is a history of stagnation, contraction, despotism, court intrigue, and unwarranted arrogance.

In a sense, the empire that Constantine created was unworthy of being called the "New Rome".
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Byzantium preserved ancient knowledge for us and also had
its own busy intellectual life, which can't be said about its
western barbarious neighbours, saved by them from Muslim
danger.

If someone would call himself by your name and demanded your possesity by this fact, would You marry him?
Anyway, in fact, plans of alliance or even unification were actual sometimes, especially under Komnen dinasty.
If they failed, it was all western fault.
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I asked that because of your claim that Poland wanted Lithuania to be part of it after WW1.

And yes, I mean Poland to be part of SU, not vice-versa.
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There's some difference between Poland and SU if You haven't noticed... Anyway the proposition was bilingual or cantonised LITHUANIA.
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Georgia was once a major power. In fact, we almost defeated the Union! Because of the bravery of our soldiers, the country of Georgia changed their name to reflect upon how passionately we fought. And lost.
There was nothing tragic about the loss of the South's slavocracy.



As for the best empire of all time, that is obvious -- the Roman Empire.

Without the cultural legacy of the ancient Roman Empire, there would have been no British Empire, no United States Empire, and so on.
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A fall of any state or culture is tragic.
Especially it it falls to the yankees...
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Heresson, From a purely legal point of view, Charles was appointed emperor by the temporal head of Rome, the Pope, with the advice and consent of the Roman Senate. I believe the Pope's official Roman title was Exarch. The Pope, since 445, was also Pontifex Maximus in the Roman Empire.

In a sense, Charles was appointed emperor by Roman officials, including the Senate of Rome. Whether they need the further consent from the Eastern Emperor or the Senate of New Rome is debatable.

Regardless, Charles immediately reached out to the East to seek recognition. He was rebuffed. I don't know how this is the West's fault.
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Pope or any of self-claimed Roman officials didn't have any legal right to make Charles emperor, and the ceremony
of crowning him was not Roman.
If West wanted their empire, they could try better than
just saying; hello, WE are Romans now.
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Frankish presence in Italy was violating of Roman territory anyway and papal state was rebelled Roman province.
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Heresson, Well history is history. We cannot undo it and correct past mistakes. Had there been political union and cooperation between East and West, there probably would have been Frankish armies marching against the Arabs in Syria and the Holy Land in the 800's,. This may have been enough to halt the continued decline of both the East and the West in face continued Arabs aggression.
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I have nothing against decline and Arabic conquests in the
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