>The example here would be that the British Empire, instead of fighting to the death stepped aside for the USA. Uhh, no. There will always be a premiere power

>The example here would be that the British Empire, instead of fighting to the death stepped aside for the USA. Uhh, no. There will always be a premiere power and the British Empire was it, but they weren't head and shoulders above everybody else the way the US is now, or Rome was in its day. Neither was any other power ever an undisputed champion between Rome and the post Cold War US. Edit: not in Western Europe, anyway. The Mongol Empire and the Caliphate were supreme at certain times and places. >After the Roman Empire was defeated by the Hunnic Empire WTF? That never happened. The Romans defeated the Huns at Chalons and were then conquered by Goths a few decades later.