5 Most Powerful Empires

[Qwcasd]

Post you're list below

1. United States of America Now
Extremely powerful, highly mobile military, very large and influential economy and culture
2.British Empire 1900
No need to explain....
3. Mongol Empire 1279
The motherfuckers controlled the world
4. French Empire 1810
EXTREMELY influential culture, powerful land army for most of the 19th century, big economic contender
5. China, at any time ever
Once again, no need to explain

[Lackadaisical2]

Any thing around now> anything before.

Therefore, the top 5 most powerful nations today. Probably something like:

USA, China, Russia, India, UK (?)

[Maurepas]

1. The Galactic Republic, ruled the galaxy for over a thousand years
2. The Hutt Empire, at one point ruled the Galaxy, government outlasted the Republic into the modern era
3. The Galactic Alliance, successfully quelled all rebellions in its path
4. The Mandalorian Empire spawned the greatest Warriors ever seen in the Galaxy
5. The Infinite Empire, managed to enslave nearly every sentient species in the Galaxy, and created a factory more efficient than anything before or since...

[Conserative Morality]

You forgot the Roman Republic after the Marian reforms but before Caesar. I'm sure they would adapt to modern technology pretty quickly.

And the Imperium of Man would Pwn every last one of us.

[Barringtonia]

I wouldn't put the Mongols there, much as I'd not put Vikings, in that I don't think Empire building was so much the aim as compared to a general rampage through the world.

Interesting that you'd put America there since many would shy from calling it an Empire, though it is one.

How about the Roman Empire?

[Samurkhan]

And how about the Dutch of the 17th and 18th centuries?

[Erukush]

How does the Pax Romana not feature?

[The Islands of Andaman]

1. Napoleonic Empire
2. Mughal Empire
3. Austria-Hungary
4. Prussian Empire
5. British Empire

[The Islands of Andaman]

And how about the Dutch of the 17th and 18th centuries?

The Dutch were no were near as great as the British.

[The Halseyist Faction]

1. Napoleonic Empire
2. Mughal Empire
3. Austria-Hungary
4. Prussian Empire
5. British Empire

How is it that the nation on the bottom kicks the crap out of the nation on the top?

[Bacteriany]

1. British Empire
2. British Empire
3. British Empire
4. British Empire
5. America

The world speaks OUR language!

[Conserative Morality]

I wouldn't put the Mongols there, much as I'd not put Vikings, in that I don't think Empire building was so much the aim as compared to a general rampage through the world.

Pardon? Genghis Khan was into building an Empire, and maintaining it. But the damned Sultan had to piss him off, execute him diplomats, and seize his goods. All he wanted was mutually friendly relations! *sob*

[The Islands of Andaman]

1. Napoleonic Empire
2. Mughal Empire
3. Austria-Hungary
4. Prussian Empire
5. British Empire

How is it that the nation on the bottom kicks the crap out of the nation on the top?

Three Words: Napoleon is Awesome

[Andertion]

1. Mongol Empire (controled the world)
2. USSR (controled or influenced most of Asia, Europe, and some of Africa)
3. Roman Empire (controled most of the know world at that time)
4. Napoleonic Empire
5. British Empire (a lot of colonies all over the world)

[Barringtonia]

1. Napoleonic Empire
2. Mughal Empire
3. Austria-Hungary
4. Prussian Empire
5. British Empire

How is it that the nation on the bottom kicks the crap out of the nation on the top?

If not the top 3,

[Lackadaisical2]

1. Napoleonic Empire
2. Mughal Empire
3. Austria-Hungary
4. Prussian Empire
5. British Empire

How is it that the nation on the bottom kicks the crap out of the nation on the top?

they had a lot of help?

[Bacteriany]

1. Napoleonic Empire
2. Mughal Empire
3. Austria-Hungary
4. Prussian Empire
5. British Empire

Blasphemy. The French, the fucking french?!

[Albrante]

1. Napoleonic Empire
2. Mughal Empire
3. Austria-Hungary
4. Prussian Empire
5. British Empire

How is it that the nation on the bottom kicks the crap out of the nation on the top?

I'm with him on that.

I would say:
1,Great Britian, no question there
2,Portuguese Empire, They kicked a lot of arse, made a lot of money and had a tiny home population to boot.
3,America of the Cold War
4,Russia of the Cold War
5,Russia of the Tsarist era

[Kalibarr]

duh:
1.Sealand
2. Vatican City
3. Monaco
4. Malta
5. San Marino

[The Islands of Andaman]

1. Napoleonic Empire
2. Mughal Empire
3. Austria-Hungary
4. Prussian Empire
5. British Empire

How is it that the nation on the bottom kicks the crap out of the nation on the top?

If not the top 3,

Napoleon was the world's greatest strategist, he was just unlucky. At Waterloo, Field Marshall Blucher just so happened to arrive at the time he did, forcing Napoleon to use the Old Guard. Once they retreated, his army collapsed.
Though the Mughals were great, they fell because of bad family members, not that their empire was bad.
Prussia was defeated numerous times during Napoleon's Reign. When the mobilized in 1805 (I think), they were defeated within 3 weeks, at Ulm.

[The Islands of Andaman]

1. Napoleonic Empire
2. Mughal Empire
3. Austria-Hungary
4. Prussian Empire
5. British Empire

How is it that the nation on the bottom kicks the crap out of the nation on the top?

they had a lot of help?

I agree, it took the Allies 8 Coalitions of at least 4 nations per coalition 17 years to defeat Napoleon. That was a little one-sided.

[The Islands of Andaman]

1. Napoleonic Empire
2. Mughal Empire
3. Austria-Hungary
4. Prussian Empire
5. British Empire

How is it that the nation on the bottom kicks the crap out of the nation on the top?

I'm with him on that.

I would say:
1,Great Britian, no question there
2,Portuguese Empire, They kicked a lot of arse, made a lot of money and had a tiny home population to boot.
3,America of the Cold War
4,Russia of the Cold War
5,Russia of the Tsarist era

The only reason Imperial Russia lasted so long was because of their many troops and their cold winters.

[The Islands of Andaman]

duh:
1.Sealand
2. Vatican City
3. Monaco
4. Malta
5. San Marino

I can understand the Vatican but when was San Marino an empire?

[Lelouche]

1. Mid 20th Century America (cold war)/ Present Modern America (like it or not. nobody has been more powerful)
2 Late 19th Century British Empire (1/4 of the worlds land mass, and everyone still speaks English)
3. Napoleonic France (controlled the majority of Europe, for longer then anyone in modern history)
4. Pax Romana (The Known world...nearly all of it, for 500 years)
5. The Greek Empire of Alexander the Great (Died with him.....but it was an awesome feat)

[Tahar Joblis]

The American "Imperium" is not a particularly conventional ones in terms of direct territorial rule. We would, however, date the era of US dominance as post WWII-present, or for clarity's sake, 1949-present, following Britain].

To be a most powerful empire, I suggest that one must be the singular most influential global entity present at a given point in time. The first such contender is obvious the Mongolian empire beginning in the 13th century, who influenced pretty much everything going on outside of Australia, the Americas, and the Pacific Islands (and at first or second most land area controlled, must be considered regardless of definition). Next, we have the first pan-oceanic empire, the Spanish Empire, which enjoyed about a century in the golden sun before being displaced by the French in the mid-17th century, who were in turn forcibly displaced by the British in the mid-18th century, who then enjoyed a period of unprecedented global ascendency for two full centuries. In the present period, we enjoy an era in which the US displays a dominant influence. In order of their period of uncontestable global dominant influence, we have:

1.) British Empire
2.) Mongolian Empire
3.) Spanish Empire
4.) French Empire
5.) American "neo"-Empire

As I would measure it. There are some fuzzy lines - you might interchange French and American, or Mongolian and Spanish, depending on where you draw your dates beginning and ending global primacy. We definitely have a period of European primacy on the globe in the "colonial" era, starting somewhere in the 16th century or so.

Historically, these have been the five empires which displayed a dominant influence over the world. Other empires, such as the Roman ones, the Chinese ones, the Ottoman empire, Japanese empire, Russian empire, Soviet "empire" - displayed contested or primarily regional influence, sharing the stage with others.