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> the Roman Empire lasted about 200 years. Chinese imperial rule lasted much longer, maybe 1,500 years? The Roman empire lasted considerably longer than 200 ye
by KineticLensman 3y ago
> the Roman Empire lasted about 200 years. Chinese imperial rule lasted much longer, maybe 1,500 years?
The Roman empire lasted considerably longer than 200 years - perhaps 500 years in its best understood form going from Octavian becoming emperor in ~30BCE to the fall of the Western Roman Empire in approx 470CE. The eastern end of the empire lasted in various forms for another 1000 years (!) until the fall of Constantinople.
- denton-scratch 3y agoThanks for the correction. The upshot, however, is that few empires last as long as 500 years, and only a couple lasted as long as 1,500 years. And those empires change a lot over the course of their existence; they weren't effective vehicles for a collective effort at, say, colonising Mars.
- KineticLensman 3y ago> And those empires change a lot over the course of their existence; they weren't effective vehicles for a collective effort at, say, colonising Mars Completely agree!