Empires

He'd probably say something about insecurity, repression and hatred of our father.

The Byzantine Empire lasted longer than any other empire.

Kapikulu, size doesnt matter in this particular situation. What matters is the fact that the empire still existed.

Edited by Hellios - 06-Nov-2006 at 18:20

Does Chinese dynasties count as intact continnum if we deployed Roman-Byzantine standard ?

Edited by Dream208 - 06-Nov-2006 at 20:35

Edited by Hellios - 07-Nov-2006 at 18:54

Originally posted by Hellios Compliment: The Spanish empire was big.   Addition: The British Empire, later called the British Commonwealth, later called the British Commonwealth of Nations, later called the Commonwealth of Nations, was a 53 country confederation of nations.

Heh, according to that map the Portuguese had a toehold in Newfoundland?

the egyptian empire lasted 3000 years

...Not to mention the period of Syrian rule in the 1st intermidate period. There is a ridiculous conception that throughout Ancient history, Egypt was a united and strong empire that managed to retain its own culture through hell and back. This is a huge misconception- Egypt has inherited a vast amount of its culture from Caanan, Mespotamia, North Africa and the Arabian peninsula. When the Egyptians were simple hunter gatherers on the banks of the upper nile, Leonard Wooley's harp of Ur was being plucked for the king for his entertainment. When the Egyptians were building mud brick huts, Gudea of Lagash was building the Zigguart in Larsa, when the Egyptians were making the first basic hyroglyphs, the first centralized state was being founded by Sargon of Akkad. The Egyptians are as absolutley unique and united as we think. A great people and one of finest civilizations on the earth, yes- but many of humanities' first steps into civilization were occuring in Mesopotamia and the further east.