Poll: Your Favourite Empire

[Hader]

I take un-imaginable offense that the Imperium of Man(the largest Empire ever) is not listed. It is truly the best empire and it could kick the ass of nay other empire any day of the week. Yes even the Sith Empire.

The Inquisitor will be over shortly to investigate the tip they received about heretical involvement with Xenos. In short; u=boned.

Oh, and I wholeheartedly agree with this man.

THE EMPEROR GUIDES MY BLADE.

 

[a ginger491]

Is everyone voting brittish because they don't know anything about all the other ones or did they do something awesome that I missed?

 

[a ginger491]

The Mongolian Empire, for the reason that Genghis Khan was a freaking bad ass and about 1% of living Humans are his descendents, also, unlike the British Empire, Genghis Khan didn't enslave a bunch of people with a justification of "They're Brown savages, so they don't have the same rights".

I agree, Slaughter is much better than enslavement in my opinion. also the Mongols helped cause the collapse of the roman empire and scared everyone in europe shitless so that earns them a lot of cudos

 

[NeoNexus]

The Ultramarines of the Codex Astartes approves of your observation, indeed. To vote for any other empire would be heretical.

 

[n03s]

wow..

No Macedonian/Roman/Byzantine Empire to choose?!

You are extremely biased friend..

The Roman Empire 6.5 million sq km
in its greatest extend back in 53 AD..

The Macedonian Empire 5.2 million sq km
in its greatest extend back in 323 BC..

The Byzantine Empire 3.5 million sq km
in its greatest extend back in 555 AD..

Thats just the controlled territory..
Yeah.. Real territory..
Not unexplored land full of natives with underdeveloped technology..

I cant even bother to talk about the legacy left from them...
Arts, Science , Religion even Warfare and so many more..


Your topic is just ludicrous friend..

BUT if I had to choose from what you consider the great empires; by far I would choose the British.. <3 England

 

[Count Igor]

wow..

I just created an account only for this topic..
No Macedonian/Roman/Byzantine Empire to choose?!

You are extremely biased friend..

The Roman Empire 6.5 million sq km
in its greatest extend back in 53 AD..

The Macedonian Empire 5.2 million sq km
in its greatest extend back in 323 BC..

The Byzantine Empire 3.5 million sq km
in its greatest extend back in 555 AD..

Thats just the controlled territory..
Yeah.. Real territory..
Not unexplored land full of natives with underdeveloped technology..

I cant even bother to talk about the legacy left from them...
Arts, Science , Religion even Warfare and so many more..


Your topic is just ludicrous friend..

BUT if I had to choose from what you consider the great empires; by far I would choose the British.. <3 England

First, Hi. Welcome to the Escapist. I hope it's a fruitful time.
Second, you're talking in square kilometers. The poll is in Miles. The empires you're talking about are too small to be in the poll, as there's a limit of 8 options. He should have swapped one of them for Other, though this is just about the biggest empires there were.

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[TheAmokz]

Holy Roman; they had the coolest flag!

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I think my World Civilization professor said it best: "The Holy Roman Empire wasn't very Holy, wasn't very Roman, and certainly wasn't much of an Empire."

However, I will concede that the flag looks awesome.

Poor call. Your World civ prof should have attributed that quote to Voltaire.

Ce corps qui s'appelait et qui s'appelle encore le saint empire romain n'était en aucune manière ni saint, ni romain, ni empire.

* This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

Maybe his World civ professor was Voltaire?

 

[StormShaun]

Neither but if so...

The Empire...heeell yeh

Or Australia...its awesome...

 

[GBlair88]

You seem to forget that this man:

Is a Brit.

Strictly speaking so was Darth Vader.

 

[Woodsey]

You seem to forget that this man:

Is a Brit.

Strictly speaking so was Darth Vader.

Well, he was portrayed by two Americans and two Brits.

 

[tokae]

Evidently there are some some people here on the forums that are REALLY into furniture.
(Speaking, of-course, of the votes for the Ottoman empire )

 

[SckizoBoy]

It's funny how the word is 'empire' as derived from 'imperium' and 'emperor' as derived from 'imperator' when the definitions are quite different. 'Imperium' = authoritative remit of an official (usually applied to a consul) and 'imperator' = (militarily) victorious (was going to say 'dux' there) official (again, usually a consul), declared so by his soldiers (i.e. doesn't confer any political power whatsoever, however much it is inferred).

Anyway, as the (probably wrong) lesson in Latin demonstrates: Roman, which was the largest empire with respect to the source ruling location. All empires begin as a nation (regardless of size), but (unless we count the petty 'empires' that were the Spartan and Athenian realms) Rome was the only one that started as a city. Not bad going. And to top it off, longest lasting empire ever.

But cavalry was their death...

And no emperor can beat Augustus for keeping it all together so effectively.

 

[n03s]

First, Hi. Welcome to the Escapist. I hope it's a fruitful time.
Second, you're talking in square kilometers. The poll is in Miles. The empires you're talking about are too small to be in the poll, as there's a limit of 8 options. He should have swapped one of them for Other, though this is just about the biggest empires there were.

Oh, I may as well give some tips.
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Thanks Igor, im not a forum regular.. therefore some basic things elude me.
Especially having only 8 options max for a poll..
In my opinion , you cant measure the greatness of an empire by just their territory, and yea I blame the OP for beign biased, when obviously I am too

cheers n thx again Igor

 

[Arsen]

Despite the difference, one could say that the "Arab" and "Ottoman" empires need to be combined.

Not really. The Ottomans took up the mantle of the Caliphate but largely built their empire from scratch. They weren't a case of just taking over a pre-existing structure like, say, Alexander was.

Not to mention that their conquest of the Iberian Peninsula and their attempt to invade Europe is one of the most horrific chapters of humanity ever entered into the books.

If you don't know much about "the books," I guess. Even by contemporary standards there were far worse things going on in the respective eras of the Umayyads and the Ottomans.

And the Reconquista had a "good" ending? That was the chapter of history that resulted in mass forcible conversions and the wholesale expulsion of the Jews from Spain, right?

The Mohommaedian/Moorish Conquests were a thousand times worse.

Then again, this is why Jews had trouble throughout history: They never accepted, assimilated, or changed their beliefs when becoming a part of another culture. Even then Christianity and Judaism are so ridiculously similar it has to be argued why they are two seperate religions now. It can also be argued that they didn't truly accept their own belief in Christianity.

Because the term "mass expulsion" means "something immoral and wrong" happened right?

As for the "wholesale expulsions" of Jews from Spain I have no clue. All I see is the evil Arabian horde cleansing Northern Africa, converting as they go, then enslaving one half of Spain from the year 711-1492 arguably. Only to at long last be overtaken in a beautiful display of human endeavour. Franks, Visigoths, and other factions retook what was rightfully theirs.

I love how the mosques were turned into Cathedrals as well. Some nice architecture there...