Greatest empire huh? I think we can do better than a society with slavery.
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Note that the US still has slavery - the 13th amendment contains an exception for prison labor. Which is widely abused for literal slave labor.
USA 🤝 Romans
Hate for the Britons.
there are no great empires OP 🙃
Me in 2020: "Wow, I really hope these past four years were our 'Nero' era and not our 'Honorius' era."
Me in 2025: "Oh god oh fuck here comes our 'Honorius' era"
The Roman Emperor Nero was devoid of redeeming qualities and ruinous to everyone he touched, but the state recovered and would go on to a healthier existence for another ~100 or so years.
The Roman Emperor Honorius was devoid of redeeming qualities and ruinous to everyone he touched. The state would not recover, and another ~50 years of decline would turn the already-reduced quality of life of the Roman people to cinders, benefitting no one except the powerful and wealthy who managed to survive long enough to carve out little kingdoms for themselves.
Luckily, the USA does not hold up the world the way that Rome did - a few days travel from the border will not lead you to a land where modern science and development is unknown. Unfortunately for those of us living here, it very well may take you to a place where modern science and development is more robust.
a few days travel from the border will not lead you to a land where modern science and development is unknown.
You gotta go deeper inside for that now.
Does this imply that Europe is the Eastern Roman Empire?
I hope not.
Could be. And China is the ascending Kalifate and India the empire of Charlemagne?
When people ask why men are always fascinated by the Roman Empire it's because it's analogous to our current timeline. It's a great way to parse where we are or how far we have left to fall.
History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme. It gives us hints, like all great powers in the past. The question is, how much are we willing to learn?
jk, we're Americans, we don't learn shit
The amount of times ive gotten confused between USA and Ancient Rome is concerning