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The British monarchy managed about a thousand years, as did the Roman empire
by framecowbird 5y ago
The British monarchy managed about a thousand years, as did the Roman empire
- kragen 5y agoThe British monarchy lost most of its power in the Magna Carta in 01215, was interrupted by the establishment of the Commonwealth in 01649, was replaced by the Glorious Revolution in 01688, lost most of its remaining power to Parliament in 01689, and became British in 01707. I'll give you the Roman Empire, which lasted close to 1500 years, and also, for example, the Imamate of Oman, the Japanese Imperial Family (which has lost and regained its power over Japan two or three times), and Al-Azhar University, which celebrated its thousandth birthday about 50 years ago. There are a few other examples.
- Shacklz 5y ago> 01215 Why are you prefixing the years with a zero, is that a thing? Are you preparing for those who might read this in a few millenia after us?
- Jensson 5y agoIt is octal, write '01215' in a browser javascript console and you get '653'. (Not sure if that is what he meant, but if he did that for ease of parsing it will just make it harder)
- lordnacho 5y agoMakes it easier to cater for events in the span of 30-40k. I'm the grim darkness of the future, there will in fact be long lived institutions.
- catlikesshrimp 5y agoYou are the grim darkness of the future?
- lordnacho 5y agoHaha thanks auto-correct!
- DeathArrow 5y agoHistory is accelerating, events happen faster and empires will last far less than they used to.
- catlikesshrimp 5y agoty. And the French monarchy. Can we consider all European monarchies as part of the same institution? They did have some similar titles and sucession rules