Your Favorite Empire

[Flaming Soul Forces]

past; the Habsburg empire of central Europe

future; the EUropean empire of the 21st century

[Brauzillia]

Maybe the Chinese Empire before the PRC invasion, and the Mongol Empire

[The Gradonian Islands]

The Austrian Empire/The Austro-Hungarian Empire would have to be my favorite

[Chamberliania]

But the Romans conquered BEYOND the known world. The Greeks and the mongals did too, but the greek empire only lasted one generation, hardly qualifying it as an empire at all, and i just do not know enough about the mongals.

[SaintB]

The one I'm in charge of.

[Glenerados]

Other The Irish Empire

[The Scandinavian Reich]

The British Empire...the greatest to have ever existed!

[Fedeledland]

Other The Irish Empire

There has never been an "Irish Empire".

[Glenerados]

Other The Irish Empire

There has never been an "Irish Empire".

I am from the future you see Fedededledland In fifteen and a half years time Scotland,Wales and Iceland have been conquered by the Irish Imperial Armies.The Empire shall be headed by the Emperor Enda.

[Kyraina]

Obviously anyone who did not choose the Galactic Empire (or at least Darth Revan's Sith Empire) is completely ignorant. But I guess the British Empire was pretty cool too.

id Take the New Republic over The Galactic Empire and The Old Republic over Darth Revans Sith Empire anyday

[Dru-Topia]

the Soviet empire?

[Risottia]

Romans, hands down.
Building roads and aqueducts that are still there (and some of them even WORKING) after 1600 years without maintenance...

[North Suran]

I say that had the King not died, he'd have regrouped and returned with a fresh army. Having already subdued the territory between Mesopotamia and the Indus, he could have landed with both feet on the Nandas.

Before he died, Alexander was actually planning to first conquer Arabia and then the Italian Peninsula.

So had he lived, there would have been no Roman Empire.

But the Romans conquered BEYOND the known world. The Greeks and the mongals did too, but the greek empire only lasted one generation, hardly qualifying it as an empire at all, and i just do not know enough about the mongals.

The Diadochi states lasted until 30 BC, while Hellenistic culture and civilisation continued for centuries beyond that. If one counts the Byzantine Empire as being Greek, then the Hellenic Empire lasted for over a millennium.

[Parsanaples]

greeks simple fighting style but effective

[A Ant]

British obviously.

[Nazis in Space]

I say that had the King not died, he'd have regrouped and returned with a fresh army. Having already subdued the territory between Mesopotamia and the Indus, he could have landed with both feet on the Nandas.

Before he died, Alexander was actually planning to first conquer Arabia and then the Italian Peninsula.

So had he lived, there would have been no Roman Empire.

I'd question that. It's sort of like saying that following Alexander's conquest, there clearly was no chance for a Persian Empire.

For that matter, I'd even question Alexander's ability to overrun the mediterranean in the first place. Logistical difficulties - related to seapower - had already fucked with the Persians in the past, and there's no reason to assume that Alexander wouldn't have similar problems. Alexander had also wilfully sacrificed a substantial fraction of his seasoned elite with his march through the desert (An unnecessary action most likely meant as a punishment for his soldiers' mutiny in India), and executed more than one of his invaluable generals. Then there's his increasing tendency towards alcoholism, and of course, the decreasing loyalty of his friends on account of him adopting a Persian lifestyle and approach to governship.

Finally there is the issue of Alexander - apart from being dependent on the Persian Empire's hilarious division (They fought internal wars between different satraps with some regularity. The emperor didn't mind too much) and Darius III ridiculous lack of confidence and thus competence - fought his wars in a pretty simple fashion. Phalanx holds ground -> cavalry crashes into the enemy's flank -> Rout 'em!

Conquering the western mediterranean requires him to have and use a fleet, with which he has approximately no experience whatsoever, meaning that he's ultimately dependent on the (Antagonistic and exhausted) Greeks and Phoenicians.

IMHO, his grandiose plans would very likely have resulted in Carthage drumming together an alliance between it and various minor factions (Nort necessarily the Etruscans, the two didn't like each other much, but certainly the Romans as a sort of hammer on the ground), and essentially replicating the Persian/ Greek wars on a larger scale.

Alexander may not necessarily lose - a very real possibility though it is -, but even if he wins, once he's out of the way, things will go back to roughly what'd have happened anyway within a century or two.

[Fongbai]

Asia: Mongolian Empire
Europe: Napoleon's first french Empire

[Soviet Haaregrad]

No Dutch? No Americans?

Huns it is.

[Argouthia]

Incan all the way. These guys were geniuses. I havnt studied alot of them but from what I know they're smarter than any of the empires

[A Ant]

Incan all the way. These guys were geniuses. I havnt studied alot of them but from what I know they're smarter than any of the empires

Can't be that smart since they got raped by the Spanish Empire.