which is the best empire?
Which is the best empire?
Lucas Brown
Christopher Barnes
The one all the barbarians in Europe have been trying to ape for the past 1500 years
Jordan Ward
Goryeo
Wyatt Foster
I don't know about that, drinking water from lead pipes, boy molestation and watching slave get raped and killed by animals are exclusively Roman.
Nathan Johnson
>non-contiguous """empires"""
Jaxson Hill
oh nonono
Brayden King
How could you measure the gdp of an ancient civilisation?
Isaac James
British
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Landon Evans
American
Wyatt Perry
Rome without a doubt.
Jack Harris
That's just calculated as modern GDP.
Carter Adams
>boy molestation
>exclusively Roman
And lead piping was used in plumbing until 1800
Nicholas Hall
It goes like this:
Roman Empire > Mongol Empire > Napoleonic French Empire > German Empire > Brit*sh Empire
The Brit*sh ""Empire"" was built on oppressing natives unable to defend themselves, whereas the rest were built on actual military victories against equals.
Lucas Turner
But how could you possibly know how much their economies were worth
I doubt they had detailed records
Logan Hall
The glorious French empire. Too good for this world : we intentionally gave N. America to the brits because it would have been unfair, otherwise.
Andrew Cruz
A lot of economics mumbo jumbo is just numbers pulled out of analysts' asses. They don't create real products, they just make estimates.
Justin Gonzalez
The French one
Hunter Barnes
They are estimates extrapolated from more detailed records, go ask /hist/ about the exact methodology
Ryder Cruz
same with populations
bit of a bullshit comparison
yeah mate the brits just waltzed into africa and america while the french and spanish watched on from the sidelines
fucking retard
en.wikipedia.org
Mason Sanders
the one that has most people we wuzzing about it.
Matthew Robinson
Roman Empire > Hellenistic Empires > British Empire > Spanish Empire
Mongols were devils and unironically destroyers of civilization
Brits at least brought some infrastructure and founded great countries like the US, Canada, Australia and NZ
John Perez
damn those losses
why are the french so naff at war?
John Gray
British Empire for me
Jacob Fisher
Eastern Roman Empire was kino
Adrian Ortiz
>Using current stats
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Oliver Allen
Roman. Why did Britain treat their colonies like shit? What's with that awful GDP?
Jack Nelson
It's based on their former territories modern numbers
Roman,just look at that GDP P C
Colton Sanchez
lol the british ""empire"" was just India and Africa with some inbred bongs on top, just like modern day Britain
Andrew Jackson
the core of their might
Liam Perez
t. couldn't conquer fucking ethiopia
Isaac Campbell
Ian Walker
lot of salty dagos in here
Angel Ortiz
There's usually not big a difference between ancient empires in terms of productivity, which is between 400-500 GDP per capita (1990 dollars), so you can usually assume that this number times the population estimate is the actual GDP. Difference between regions such as Italy in the Roman Empire and Gaul are based on informed guesses based on different factors such as grain production, taxes, iron production and so forth by historians who know more than me, but are still just guesses. Numbers do get somewhat more reliable with time, but everything before modern times should be taken with a grain of salt.
en.wikipedia.org
Nicholas Lopez
It's from a video from Reallifelore
youtube.com
It isn't based on their historic gdp and population, but the current gpd and population if these empires were to somehow be reunited today, at their higher historic size
You are a cretin
Asher Murphy
mongolia's numbers sound like bullshit
Nicholas Cook
If you had studied just a bit of chemistry you would know that lead pipes aren't dangerous
T. Brainlet
Lucas Bailey
monggol obv
Josiah Young
T. Couldn't bother to study history
Benjamin Long
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