Yo what's the best empire

>>280457
Byzantine. /thread

My dick desu

>>280475
Elaborate.

>>280485
I can't. I actually know nothing about the Byzantine Empire Tbh.

>>280457
The USA.

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>yfw Japan it's the only remaining empire in the world.

>>280623
>subjugated by the US of A since 1945

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>>280632
I was talking about the fact they still have a dude with the title of "emperor".

the British Empire

>unilaterally repealed the corn laws, setting the path to their great economic progress through free trade
>amassed insane amount of territory becoming the greatest empire ever by land area
>took control of the most strategic pieces of the world: Gibaltrar, Suez canal, and South Africa
>abolished slave trade in the Atlantic sea
>invented football
>won two World Wars

not even British

>>280727
>lost to a couple colonial rednecks
Great Empire you've got there.

>>280766
this meme needs to die t b h. Burgers had help from the French and other countries interested in seeing Britain lose an important colonial possession. British were also outnumbered, though tactically the Americans had them beat in irregular warfare which proved to be one of the more decisive factors

t. burger

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>>280727
Seconded. And I am British. Would you rather the world had been conquered by muslims, chinese, or even worse, the French? Or by classy guys like us. You're welcome world for the following.

>USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland
>South Africa (till the niggers took over), Rhodesia, the breadbasket of Africa (till the niggers took over)
>the world's largest democracy, India
>The Far East's main financial centres, Hong Kong and Singapore
>Israel (ok maybe that wasn't such a good idea)
>Anglicanism, the one true religion
>parliamentary democracy
>Industrial Revolution
>modern physics (Newton)
>modern economics (Smith)
>modern armies (Cromwell)
>modern policing (Colquhoun)
>the international language you are using, developed by geniuses such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Johnson, Wordsworth, Dickens, Eliot
>modern rock (the Beatles)
>heavy metal (Black Sabbath)
>television (Baird)
>telephone (Bell)
>computers (Turing)
>WWW (Berners-Lee)
>railways (Stephenson)
>steam engines (Trevithick)
>electric motor (Faraday)
>jet engines (Whittle)
>many, many more inventions and scientific discoveries (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_innovations_and_discoveries)

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>>280457
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>>280872
>(ok maybe that wasn't such a good idea)
>he doesnt like Israel
Also
>using scousers as an example of proud British history