Poll: Favorite historical empire

[Zacharine]

Well, yeah, bit they did it without eating the hearts of anyone who disagreed.

Wait, I'm thinking of the Aztecs. Crap.

It happens.

And yes, true. But the celts at least had almost equal rights for women and a working calendar. Quite unlike the romans. Curiously enough, the romans didn't actually begin any significant use of gold coins until after conquering plenty of Celtic regions, relying on the silver Denarii instead. The Aureus began to see widespread use only during the final period of republican Rome.

And the Celtic Empire was a cultural empire. There never was a single Celtic ruler holding the leash. In fact, discounting federal government it was the antique version of USA. It is quite likely this lack of unified resistance was a major contributing factor in their lost battles against the highly-organized romans.

Shame, that.

 

[JohnnySex]

Alexander the great was the shit. He conquered 3 kingdoms. Pwned.

 

[Fenwolf2003]

Hard choice between British or Roman, went with Brits since they had guns.

 

[Kycho]

The Galactic Empire beats all you puny Earthian empires!

 

[Ben Legend]

THE Empire of course... oh... it can't be fictional?

 

[Burningsok]

Greeks, the mythology is awesome and interesting to learn.

 

[Aqualung]

I'm going to be different, and say, "HAPSBURG YEAH BABY!".

 

[Mushroomfreak111]

The Galactic Empire beats all you puny Earthian empires!

Quoted for truth! There is no empire like "The Empire"!

 

[Ekonk]

The Dutch. Because I am Dutch.

Not to mention that the VOC was pretty bad-ass. They did commit a lot of murder though.

 

[BlumiereBleck]

GREEKS

HADES


Nuff said!

all that needs to be said

 

[Lord_Panzer]

The Roman Empire, simply because it has helped to united the cultures of Europe. =)

You mean like this?

Spoiler

Ups, sorry. Wrong millenia.

No, more like this.

Spoiler

 

[HitsWithStyxx]

Vikings. Hands down.
Though I may be biased by my ancestry somewhat...

Still, beards, axes, wenches and mead sell it for me.

EDIT: And longboats. Don't forget those.

 

[Danny Ocean]

Oh come now, there's really no contest.

Spoiler: Warning, big image.

 

[blindthrall]

The Mongol Horde. Scared Europe worse than the Plague, and they only stopped invading Poland because they realized how poor Europe was in the 13th century. They may have caused the aforementioned plague by flinging corpses, by catapult, over city walls. You can also thank them for the fact that we're not all Islamic, they destroyed a powerful Persian empire that was just waiting to bitchslap Europe for the Crusades. And they used the huge mass of refugees in front of their armies to infect and drain the lands in front of them of resources, and if they were close enough, as human shields.

We owe alot to the Romans, but I can't respect an empire that was brought down by a combination of Christians and the French. And whose emperors were incestuous. Speaking of incestuous royalty, the British are respectable for their brutality, but they are the cause of all the modern world's problems. They carved up the Middle East into an ethnic clusterfuck that is still trying to untangle itself. And Marx, who lived in England, thought up communism mostly because of how shitty the British treated their lower class. But jolly good show going toe-to-toe with Hitler for the entire war.

 

[Snowalker]

The Greeks, just love the mythology

 

[SnipErlite]

Greek, Roman or British...........

Voted for British though

Oh come now, there's really no contest.

Warning, big image

Yeahh go us

 

[linwolf]

voted other, the Egyptians had the most interesting empire in history
the Vikings had the most bad ass

 

[ResonanceSD]

Going to have to vote Roman on this one, Greeks had cooler gods but Rome kicked more ass.

GREEKS

ZEUS
HADES
POSEIDON

Nuff said!

[sub]I can't wait for the new Percy Jackson movie![/sub]

Thats the movie about the kid who's Poseidon's son right?

[sup/]that looked awful.[/sup]

I'm more excited for the new Clash of the Titans.

Same gods in both cultures, with new names....


Ave, Imperator!

 

[ResonanceSD]

We owe alot to the Romans, but I can't respect an empire that was brought down by a combination of Christians and the French.

I laughed really hard at this one

 

[blindthrall]

Oh come now, there's really no contest.

It looks impressive until you think about how many years it took to amass, and consider they never held all of that territory at one time. And much of that territory was taken without a fight, or with such a technological superiority there may as well have not been a fight. Colonial powers were simply bullies. Here are the largest empires that earned the land and held it:

1. Genghis
2. Hitler
3. Napoleon
4. Alexander the Great

Incidentally, did anybody know Turkey has lost more wars than anyone else?