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Started by jimmy olsen, September 16, 2012, 08:00:17 AM

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Who had the best shot at achieving lasting world hegemony?

Roman Empire - All Roads Lead to Rome
2 (5.4%)
Umayyad Caliphate - Allahu Akbar!
0 (0%)
Song Dynasty - The Middle Kingdom
1 (2.7%)
Mongol Empire - It is not sufficient that I suceed, all others must fail
1 (2.7%)
Ming Empire - The 8th voyage of Admirial Zheng He
0 (0%)
Ottoman Empire - The Eternal State
0 (0%)
Hapsburg Empire - Let others wage war; you, fortunate Austria, marry
1 (2.7%)
Mughal Empire - A king should deem no one his relation
0 (0%)
House of Bourbon - I am the state
0 (0%)
First British Empire - The Sun Never Sets on the British Empire
8 (21.6%)
First French Empire - Liberté, égalité, fraternité
2 (5.4%)
Japanese Empire - All the World Under One Roof
0 (0%)
Third Reich - Deutschland über alles
0 (0%)
Soviet Union - Workers of the World Unite!
0 (0%)
United States of America - An Empire of Liberty
8 (21.6%)
Other
3 (8.1%)
World Domination is Impossible
11 (29.7%)

Total Members Voted: 36

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Ed Anger

#60
September 16, 2012, 09:13:19 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on September 16, 2012, 09:12:22 PM
Brutus would get eaten by a wild animal or carried off to sea.

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DGuller

#61
September 16, 2012, 10:26:17 PM
Assuming that all those entities actually desired world domination, I would go with US.  For a couple of years they had the monopoly on the bomb, and only two powers that could possibly rival them conventionally.  If Truman, Congress, and American people all decided in 1945 that the world had to be ruled by US even at the cost of genocide, US would have the least long odds to actually achieve world domination for a while.

jimmy olsen

#62
September 17, 2012, 01:29:01 AM
Quote from: Jaron on September 16, 2012, 01:49:43 PM
How does including the Bourbons make it less Eurocentric?
Three of the four new candidates are Asian. The Bourbons were the exception.
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Ideologue

#63
September 17, 2012, 03:38:56 AM
The United States, 1945-1948.
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jimmy olsen

#64
September 17, 2012, 11:36:21 PM
Who voted for the 1st French Empire and the Hapsburgs?  :hmm:

I wonder if the Other vote was a Spellus write in for the Byzantines.
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