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Ghengis Khan, Queen Victoria, and Alexander the Great have entered the chat.
by drbeast 4y ago
Ghengis Khan, Queen Victoria, and Alexander the Great have entered the chat.
- quartesixte 4y agoEventually collapsed. Collapsed eventually. Collapsed immediately upon his death.
- zopa 4y agoAll empires collapse eventually.
- pessimizer 4y agoPast performance isn't a guarantee of future results. With modern technology, the next empire will never collapse.
- meatyloafy 4y agoAll except the last.
- AnimalMuppet 4y agoOK, but England maintained Australia for centuries. Spain maintained the New World for centuries. I'm not sure "eventually collapsed" is proof that "it didn't work". I mean, the Soviet Union eventually collapsed, and that wasn't because of communication delays. Everything eventually collapses. But "stood for centuries, despite the communication delays" kind of disproves the hypothesis. (Or if it doesn't, given the things that collapse after centuries without the communication delays, it means the hypothesis has no predictive power.)
- readthenotes1 4y agoThe same argument could be made for Great Britain and the United States as well since the colonies were a part of GB for centuries. I think the same argument for Canada applies to Australia: there must be a critical mass of well weaponed insurgents before the time delay makes too much of a difference.
- sorokod 4y agoPretty much anything happens eventually. Dinosaurs lasted 179 mil. years. The Roman state, between one and two thousand (depends on how you count).
- readthenotes1 4y agohe addressed all those didn't he? "Queen Victoria, Chinese Gordon is on line one. Shall I tell him to hold?"
- gadtfly 4y agoThe Macedonian and Mongolian Empires shattered into more manageable bits almost immediately. For Victorian Britain: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/Isochronic_Passage_Chart_Francis_Galton_1881.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/Isochron...
- sayrer 4y ago1914 and 2016: https://www.rome2rio.com/labs/isochronic-travel-times/ https://www.rome2rio.com/labs/isochronic-travel-times/
- Beltalowda 4y agoAlexander the Great and the Mongol empire are specifically addressed in the article. Maybe read before "entering the chat"?
- drbeast 4y agoRTFA and not write commentary off the cuff? Hahahahahahahaha! You're funny, if not naive.
- insane_dreamer 4y agoAlexander the Great wouldn't count as his empire fractured upon his death almost immediately after his conquests
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