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Not that unique actually. Many (perhaps most) countries in Europe have some period in the past when they were much more powerful than they are now.
by olavk 14y ago
Not that unique actually. Many (perhaps most) countries in Europe have some period in the past when they were much more powerful than they are now.
- tokenadult 14y agoPlenty of countries in Asia too.
- pavel_lishin 14y agoRussia happens to be in both, and it definitely suffers from this nostalgia.
- commandar 14y agoThere's a reason why a huge portion of the population in the western hemisphere speaks Spanish.
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoAnd why quite a bit of Africa speaks French...
- Retric 14y agoSeems to me if anywhere Mogolia would probably suffer the most from this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mongol_Empire_map.gif http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mongol_Empire_map.gif http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_Empire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_Empire
- sliverstorm 14y agoExcept it ended 700 years ago, not less than 100.
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- sliverstorm 14y agoPerhaps not truly unique, but two things about the British Empire perhaps make it sting a little more: 1) It ended more recently than other European empires. 2) "The sun never sets on the British Empire". It was huge.
- eternauta3k 14y ago2 was also true of Spain at some point.