Poll: Your Favourite Empire

[Dango]

The Starfish Empire of course. You just don't know it yet

 

[magicmonkeybars]

Roman/Dutch, no other has shaped the world as they have.

 

[Paksenarrion]

Spoiler: Hands down.

This. Square miles, you say? How about half the galaxy?

 

[LewsTherin]

The Imperium of Man

Spoiler: More realistically

Best army of the age.

For most influence I would have gone with Rome or London.

 

[cannot_aim]

The Roman or Byzantine and neither of them are up there

 

[Impluse_101]

Where's Jade Empire?!?!?

OT: I have no clue.....

...Where's Jade Empire?!?!

 

[emeraldrafael]

Where's the roman?

Too small to make the cut, at a mere 2.2m sq miles! ¬_¬

There's gonna be a lot of these comments, isn't there?

And yet they did more for most any empires that would develop later in that list ALso, where's the Persian Empire?

Anyway, I would say the Zulu Empire. That man was a god.

 

[Bobbity]

Alexander's empire. It only lasted a couple of years, but it was fucking awesome.

 

[cheese_wizington]

The Roman Empire.

Way more classy than all of those other average million square mile+ empires.

 

[Yokai]

I voted for the Arabs, as they seemed like pretty cool guys. Generally avoiding that whole "shoot you 'cause you're a funny color" and "construct watchtowers out of skulls" thing. Obviously they weren't pacifists, but being conquered by them wasn't all that bad.

Spoiler: Of course, on the complete opposite end of the spectrum, I am a fan of

 

[Feralcentaur]

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".

 

[TrevHead]

British because im a Brit, Although im glad it doesnt exist today as ppl have the right to live in a free country. Still I would probably have a better standard of life here in Britain.

Its just a shame the empire ended as it did as the 3rd world would be a much stable place if the British set up decent governments in its colonies. Still the British wasnt really in much of a position to do much better since it was devistated by 2 world wars. Then went into meltdown due to a dodgy loan from US government that was very anti Brit in the years following the war and before the cold war kicked off when they changed tack and were all smiles again

 

[Draken Steel]

Roman. Imma sucker for mass infantry formations.

 

[Hader]

No Roman?

That's a disservice to the name of an empire to not include them. The title of 'Caesar' was coveted by so many and adapted as the title for a ruler in many languages/countries.

 

[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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