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View Poll Results: which would you most like to see return?
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Roman Empire
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8 |
13.33% |
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Soviet Union
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6 |
10.00% |
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Iroquiois Confederacy
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4 |
6.67% |
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Aztec Empire
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3.33% |
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Inca Empire
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1.67% |
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Carthage
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3.33% |
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Persia
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2 |
3.33% |
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Poland-Lithuania
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2 |
3.33% |
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Khmer Empire
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0% |
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Ottoman Empire
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5 |
8.33% |
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Byzantine Empire
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5 |
8.33% |
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Babylon
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1 |
1.67% |
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Mughal Empire
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0% |
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Viking Empire
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3 |
5.00% |
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Celtic Empire
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1.67% |
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Holy Roman Empire
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0% |
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Viking Empire
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1 |
1.67% |
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Zululand
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1 |
1.67% |
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Ancient Egypt
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2 |
3.33% |
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Mongol Empire
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0% |
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Hanseatic League
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2 |
3.33% |
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Knights of St. John
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2 |
3.33% |
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Other
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2 |
3.33% |
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Holy Bananna Republic
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8 |
13.33% |
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August 8, 2002, 14:47
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Chieftain
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Byzantine! Constantinople, Athens, and Jerusalem, all united. How can you go wrong?
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August 8, 2002, 14:52
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Settler
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It's coming
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August 11, 2002, 18:59
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Deity
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Hapsburg, 19th century (no longer holy roman at that point)
Im pondering whether it should be 1860-1873, or 1890-1914.
Former is politically more desirable, the great liberal empire, the Ringstrasse era. Latter is more culturally brilliant- Freud, shnitzler, Hoffmanstal, Klimt, Shoenberg, etc. Not to mention Herzl, whose bio im curently reading.
Of course by bringing back the empire, i mean not merely a restoration of its borders, but of the social and cultural conditions, including the large numbers of not quite fully assimilated Jews, who accounted for so much of the cultaral brilliance.
LOTM
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August 11, 2002, 19:03
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Warlord
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All those empires suck, they all belong to the dustbin of the history.
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August 11, 2002, 20:40
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Emperor
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Originally posted by paiktis22
Byzantine. It's coming.
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I'll support your Byzantine empire only if you promise to bring order to the entire middle east, but abstain from instituting a new holocaust of the jews. Oh, and no "Byzantine" diplomacy.
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August 11, 2002, 20:44
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Settler
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No need for going all the way to the Middle East. The Greek Orthodox Church basically owns the region already. Even the Israeli parliement is built on its property.
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August 11, 2002, 20:52
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Originally posted by paiktis22
No need for going all the way to the Middle East. The Greek Orthodox Church basically owns the region already. Even the Israeli parliement is built on its property.
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No! No! You must re-establish Byzantine splendor from Tunis to Basra and from Tirana to Aswan! Make the spirit of Justinian proud of you!
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August 11, 2002, 20:54
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Settler
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We are a bit lazy now. We'll just settle for Asia Minor like always if that's not an offence to Justinian.
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August 11, 2002, 22:10
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No votes for the Mongols? Why on earth would no one want back the greatest empire in the world? And not built by white men either!
(btw, voted for my boys down in Constantinople)
Oh, and Hell does freeze over in the place were fun goes to die (at least one poster will know what that means...)
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August 12, 2002, 00:13
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Originally posted by GePap
No votes for the Mongols? Why on earth would no one want back the greatest empire in the world? And not built by white men either!
(btw, voted for my boys down in Constantinople)
Oh, and Hell does freeze over in the place were fun goes to die (at least one poster will know what that means...)
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 .....Mongals may have had the biggest empire ever, but I wouldnt exactly say they had the best, at least not from my POV.
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August 12, 2002, 01:24
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None, considering every single one of them was evil....
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August 12, 2002, 12:29
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Originally posted by paiktis22
We are a bit lazy now. We'll just settle for Asia Minor like always if that's not an offence to Justinian.
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Then you are a mere pale reflection of greatness, and unworthy of the name. Imagine the glory if your nation could welcome the Olympians of 2004 to a newly restored Roman Empire! Don't think small. It will be your undoing.
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August 12, 2002, 17:18
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Perhaps this has already been asked, but what the hell is the Celtic Empire? Did I sleep through that part of my world history class?
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August 12, 2002, 17:31
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Prince
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The Soviet Union. You can bet that they would put a stop to illegal immigration from Eastern Europe into the EU! 
Of course whether this would be worth living with the possibility of nuclear war again remains open to question. 
I'm not too familiar with a Celtic Empire either. They colonized a lot of places, but they didn't have any centralized form of government to compare, say to the Roman Empire. They were more bound by custom and tradition.
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August 12, 2002, 17:44
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King
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The ONLY empire that anyone, ever, longed for to "return" was the Roman Empire. This says it all.
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August 12, 2002, 18:24
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Lot of great empires are missing and lot of bull are present...
Perhaps you should remake the list
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