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Hm. I don't know about your assessment of the Dutch (my world history isn't up to scratch to agree or disagree), but if the Dutch was a prelude to the British,
by saraid216 12y ago
Hm. I don't know about your assessment of the Dutch (my world history isn't up to scratch to agree or disagree), but if the Dutch was a prelude to the British, and the American just a continuation of the British (which I entirely agree with, though I'd emphasize things differently than you have),
Has there been more than one world hegemon at all?
- vorg 12y agoI'd say the Chinese have been fairly separate from the West, with 3 primary peaks in power (Han dynasty, Tang-Song, and Ming-Qing), with perhaps a 4th (PRC) on the way. So there's been at least two separate hegemons. But in the West it's hard to say when one hegemon is different to another. The Romans spoke a different language from the Greeks, took over by conquest but let the Greek language be spoken in their empire, until the Greek-speaking Eastern Roman (Byzantine) empire "evolved" from the Roman Empire. So you could say the Greeks ruled for 2000 yrs from Alexander the Great (400BC) to the fall of Constantinople to the Turks (1500AD), though the Romans ran things for 500-odd years in the middle. So there's certainly many complications.