| TunnelRat | 09 Oct 2015 2:03 a.m. PST |
I think some people just have too much time on their hands. |
ScottWashburn  | 09 Oct 2015 4:00 a.m. PST |
It's the empire to which all others are compared. It set the standard for empires. |
| skippy0001 | 09 Oct 2015 4:16 a.m. PST |
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| MadDrMark | 09 Oct 2015 4:21 a.m. PST |
All but two of the "others to consider" list were heavily influenced by Rome. To me, that speaks volumes. |
| Winston Smith | 09 Oct 2015 4:40 a.m. PST |
Highly overrated. But that's all I have to say. |
| Mute Bystander | 09 Oct 2015 4:50 a.m. PST |
Byzantine = East Romans… just saying… |
| Who asked this joker | 09 Oct 2015 6:20 a.m. PST |
Overrated how? That and +1 to Mute Bystander. |
| Terrement | 09 Oct 2015 7:27 a.m. PST |
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| Martin Rapier | 09 Oct 2015 8:19 a.m. PST |
As noted above, Rome is the empire which set the standard for all others. Even the word 'empire' is derived from Latin…. |
 miniMo  | 09 Oct 2015 9:21 a.m. PST |
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 Jlundberg | 09 Oct 2015 2:34 p.m. PST |
Size and duration points for the Romans |
| skippy0001 | 09 Oct 2015 10:55 p.m. PST |
Was Rome that good or was everyone else so bad? |
| Gunfreak | 10 Oct 2015 8:34 a.m. PST |
Size and duration points for the Romans. Not really. Size was not that great.
Duration about 600 years. That is decent. I don't know if any of the Chinese ones would beat that. |
| ScottWashburn | 11 Oct 2015 11:27 a.m. PST |
Size wasn't all that great in absolute terms, but at it's height the Roman Empire contained about 75% of all the real civilizations in the world. Yes, vast stretches of the Earth lay outside it's borders, but no one but savages lived there and not very many of them, either. |
| Gunfreak | 12 Oct 2015 4:53 a.m. PST |
The roman empire is in 13th place over % of world popluation, so with 21% so infact there where MANY of them, also calling the Chinese savages might be slighly iffy?…. The Achaemenid Empire controled 44% of the world population. Rome was in the little league compeard to that. |
| Frederick | 12 Oct 2015 5:52 p.m. PST |
It is all about the influence and nobody had a longer lasting and more pervasive influence than the Romans |
| Major General Stanley | 13 Oct 2015 7:40 p.m. PST |
Oh, come on…"Nobody keeps order like the Romans". Somebody had to say it! |
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