The Jonathanian States wrote:Decius wrote:Reich is another name for Empire so in a sense in combining its Reich's Germany has had the longest Empire in history. And therefore can also be regarded as one of the greatest Empire's. The German Empire made the French Empire look like a bunch of farmers with pitchforks. Their navy, army, economy, industry, and political power were all greater and better than that of Napoleon's Empire. It was also bigger. Though the largest Empires are either Britain or Rome.
Stop. Nope, that statement is simply false, as any native speaker of German can confirm. Reich means more something like "Realm", the fact that the 1st and 2nd Reichs both were empires is unrelated to that.
The simply proof for that is that the so-called Weimar Republic (the german state between 1919 and 1939) was officially called "Das Deutsches Reich" too, without having an emperor.
Let me complete that for you. In combining its Reichs, one takes multiple states which except for geographical location are mostly unrelated (regardless of what they may claim).... .....which could be equally done by adding the ancient french kingdom to the empire before and after. And bam, the french empire lasted quite a lot longer.
The "De Geneve" family managed to hold their grip of Geneva for more or less the whole middle ages. Does that make them the greatest family/dynasty of the middle ages? Before you answer, the answer to this is the same as the answer to what this replies. Considering the enemies of Napoleon at Jena were Germans, this statement is false. Should this argument be dropped due to him not having fought the German empire, any attempt at comparison is invalid, as the two states never fought each other as empires. Both got beat up by the Brits? Check. Napoleon marched through Berlin, the German Empire didn't march through Paris: Check. I definitely require a source for that. Considering Industrialization/the industrial revolution happened after Napoleon's empire, any attempt at making a comparison on this lane is inherently inaccurate. I'll have to ask how you measure that, and/or source. See the individual parts.Here's a definite nope. Let's ignore the Khan who's lands went from sea to sea, yeah...
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Now that's what I call a colorful rebuttal.
Actually the Third Reich marched through Paris and held it for what two or three years. And just how long did it take Napoleon's Grand Armee to fall apart, a year or so. It took four years before the German Empire was pushed onto the defensive in World War 1.
