What does it take for a nation to be defined as an empire?

>what is google?

Really kid?

Single ruler presiding over multiple groups of people.

Multiple cultures and possibly languages should be represented in the people

>>1466319
It needs to be seated in Rome.

>>1466319
For the ruler to accept no better or equal outside of God(s). This idea did of course not continue into the largely non-autocratic colonial empires.

Ask Germany

multilingual polity

where is that church op?

Glory

>>1466319
Three kingdom level titles or a realm size of 150 counties

It's fuzzy.

Roman Empire was not the same kind of thing as the British Empire was not the same kind of thing as the Chinese Empire was not the same kind of thing as the Inca Empire.

The term implies that there is a metropole with rights and a hinterland without, or an aristocracy with rights and a populous without, it implies a mostly hereditary system with some quirks, it implies conquest by military force, and restructuring of conquered areas to serve the metropole.

>>1466542
germany wasn't an empire kek

Imperialism.

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at least 3 kingdom titles

>>1467078
dis.

>>1467626
This and 1000 development and 75 prestige

>>1466961
>>1467626
>>1467664

These are the right answers.