Most sucsesfull empire in world history

Originally posted by Heraclius Originally posted by kurt The Roman Empire is over rated. Eurocentrism gets on my nerves so much.   I don't think overrated is the right thing to call the Roman empire, eurocentrism may well exist, but just because the attention is so heavily focused on one part of the world does that diminish all that was accomplished in that particular region? By that particular civilisation?   The Romans accomplished alot in their own right, it isn't diminished by any over-emphasis by posterity. Other cultures and civilisations may well deserve more attention than they are currently receiving, but that doesn't mean that the impact of the Romans deserves to be under valued as a result.

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�The fourth "Indian" satrapy, India itself, was totally different. Apparently conquered, annexed, or at least claimed by Darius the Great after 522 BCE�

This guy needs to sort out his historical grammar! He seems to say all of India when only talking about a tiny corner.

Originally posted by Constantine XI Thanks for that. It looks like this website is simply incorrect in that case, and they really should do their research more carefully

    Yeah i know that site is a bit weird and most of the time their logic is a bit out there. For example i read an article there which argue that Chess was an iranian rather than Indian invention and the arguments given there were very strange to say the least (as well as funny). However i will not post the link to that article for the fear of making my Iranian friends angry (again). But as i said that i have heard this claim from other sources also. There may be some doubts as to whether the amount of Gold talons is undisputed since as you learned from that web site that even Achaemnid control over that region is a point of dispute so the amount of Gold given as tribute may also not be very clear. And also there may be some doubt about the exchange rate between gold and silver. So we have two theories hat either the amount of tribute was half of all the tribute collected or it was one third of all the tribute collected.


Edited by bilal_ali_2000 - 16-Nov-2007 at 13:38

Then (if we're talking about ancient empires), rome was indeed probably the most successful in terms of influence, size, and time of existence.

I don't know much about the eastern empires either. It's something I shoudl learn, but I'm pretty occupied learning about the americas, and to a lesser extent, about europe and the middle east.

...I just remembered some details about the mongols from once upon a time...