Posted on 08/17/2024 1:07:19 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Interesting that Alexander only got passing mention at the end of the Persian Empire and no mention of his successors.
Just think: no Romans running Jerusalem when Christ was born; no Roman empire; no "Romance" languages (French, Italian, Spanish). There would have been no Roman Vatican.
A fundamental determination of history.
I would of said:
Egypt
Greece
Roman
England
Spain
US
Because he and they only build on what the Achaemenids had created
Yes I would say your list is far better.
anything promulgating BCE/CE is woke bullSchiff
you’ve got England/Spain reversed
Some contrast!
“The Ottoman Empire (under Suleiman)...embraced ethnic diversity and religious tolerance.”
“The British Empire is now more often seen as a dark and often brutal period of colonialism.”
Gee whiz,
I just read BCE as Before Christian Era
and CE as Christian Era
So I have no problem with it.
It is interesting that the majority of the former colonies of GB have done far better than other former colonies.
Egypt
Greece
Rome
Viking
Portugal
Spain
England
France
US
BCE and CE are BeforeCurrentEra and Current Era.
They are ENTIRELY designed and promulgated to replace BeforeChrist and AnnoDomini by Christian hating revisionists
Very interesting. Thanks to all posters. History BUMP. The forward operating bases (mosques) of Islam are in practically every country in the world. The number of mosques in Bangladesh stands at more than 250,000.
Are they kidding? Seizing children from Christian families and training them as Janissaries indoctrinated in the Islamic tenets of jihad and then sending them to war against Christian lands is about as far from religious tolerance as I can imagine.
Put Alexander’s very short lived empire in there, too.
The Ottoman Empire engaged in Genocide against Armenian Christians. The German empire, and it was a short lived Empire, not outlasting the war that created it, changed civilization, too, occasioning the metamorphosis of the Bolshevik staggering economy into the Stalin Soviet Empire that did, I believe, have some effect on the course of Western Civilization.
I was limiting myself to the 6 originally mentioned, obviously if you want to make a longer list, then yes. But if you had to pick only 6.. it makes a difference
The Mongol Empire influenced modern day Russia. You can see that they were not quite inspired by the ideals of the Englitenment in Western Europe. So basically the Russian are a bunch of brutes. They had to be because they had to fight off the Mongols.
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