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What was the most influential Empire?

Which of these was the most influential Empire?

  • Roman Empire

    Votes: 7 53.8%
  • Mongol Empire

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • British Empire

    Votes: 3 23.1%
  • Macedonian Empire

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Ottoman Empire

    Votes: 2 15.4%
  • Russian Empire

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Egyptian Empire

    Votes: 1 7.7%
  • Achaemenid Empire

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Qing Dynasty

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Byzantine Empire

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    13

Spiderman

Veteran Member
I'm guessing it's either the Roman
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or the British Empire
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British certainly came the closest to conquering the world. My guess is that the Roman Empire was overall more influential though.

The Mongolian Empire
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Russian Empire:
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Achaemenid (Persian) Empire
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RedDragon94

Love everyone, meditate often
I'm guessing it's either the Roman
2015-10-09-1444414293-4246321-romanempire.jpg

or the British Empire
british_empire_map_by_duke_nidhoggr-d77phii.jpg

British certainly came the closest to conquering the world. My guess is that the Roman Empire was overall more influential though.

The Mongolian Empire
Mongol%2BEmpire%2BMap.jpg


ottoman-empire-1580.gif


Russian Empire:
qKGllpP.jpg

bizans.jpg

080c93340de8ab787d73967fe9f577d6.jpg

Achaemenid (Persian) Empire
achaemenid_empire_map.gif


Macedonian_Map_Animation_Sample_mp4_and_Empire_models.jpg
By influential do you mean culturally or just according to size?
 
The Byzantine Empire was really still the Roman Empire.

So it's hard to look much past the Roman Empire and also the Islamic (Rashidun) Empire for lasting legacies.

The British Empire probably on the next tier.
 

Spiderman

Veteran Member
The Byzantine Empire was really still the Roman Empire.

So it's hard to look much past the Roman Empire and also the Islamic (Rashidun) Empire for lasting legacies.

The British Empire probably on the next tier.
Tell me about the Rashidun Empire
 

Valjean

Veteran Member
Premium Member
My 1st thought was American, considering its global economic, cultural, military and linguistic prominence, although it does owe a lot of this to the British empire it emerged from.
How American influence will ramify through history remains to be seen.

My second notion was Roman, though I'm not wedded to it. I'm sure there are a lot of historical influences I'm unaware of.
I do wonder weather the Byzantines should be included as part of the Roman empire.
 
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But Christianity's ethos is very different from that of the Roman republic or empire. It emerged from a disintegrating empire.

Only in the West. The Eastern part of the Empire lasted until the 15th C and was very Christian.

Tell me about the Rashidun Empire

Not sure why I used that terminology actually as it is not what I meant

The Islamic Empire from the 7th C up until it fragmented in the 10th C.

It spread the 2nd biggest religion, made the ME and NA Islamic rather than Christian, ended the Persian Empire and weakened the Eastern Roman Empire. Cultural barriers today are still very much influenced by this empire. For example we think of Syrians as "Arabs" whereas many of them are ethnically similar to Greeks rather than Semitic Arabs.

It's pretty similar to the Roman Empire really in its longstanding influences. The Roman would be number 1 though because of its influence on later Empires such as the Holy Roman, and later European ones.
 

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
I voted for the Roman empire but it was difficult, Qing dynasty and Egyptian empire each had their influence on civilisation but i think Rome wins.
 

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
How has ancient Egyptian culture influenced the modern world?

Geometry, medicine, hygiene, surgery astronomy, beer, mining, monotheistic religion, codified laws, woman's liberation, architecture. There are a few contested ideas too, irrigation and taxation come to mind
 

Valjean

Veteran Member
Premium Member
I voted for the Roman empire but it was difficult, Qing dynasty and Egyptian empire each had their influence on civilisation but i think Rome wins.
But Rome's influence was localized. It had little impact in New Zealand, China, the Americas, &c. Britain's influence was more widespread, but the American Empire has had the most widespread influence, I think.
Geometry, medicine, hygiene, surgery astronomy, beer, mining, monotheistic religion, codified laws, woman's liberation, architecture. There are a few contested ideas too, irrigation and taxation come to mind
I don't think most of these were unique to Egypt. Didn't most of these develop independently in multiple regions? I don't know that any of the later versions can be traced in succession back to an Egyptian prototype.
 
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