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Eventually collapsed. Collapsed eventually. Collapsed immediately upon his death.
by quartesixte 4y ago
Eventually 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).