Which Empire had the most impact on the modern world?

The British one

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>>3007744
Meme answer: British Empire
Real answer: French Empire

>>3007744
British, but that was impacted hugely by the Roman one that preceded it, so it depends on how you look at that.

>>3007744
The Roman Empire.

>>3007774
Correct, all the British did was civilize some irrelevant savages, while the French managed to start two world wars and give birth to the Enlightenment and the liberalism.

>>3007758
this

>>3007744
id like to COLONIZE her world

iykwim

>>3007744
The Akkadian Empire. When talking about impact the first thing is always the most important. The discovery and use of electricity is incredibly important but if fire wasn't discovered it wouldn't have been possible.

>>3007774
This, owning a ton of East African wasteland does not make an Empire important on its own

>>3007758
This

Why restrict yourself to "empires"?

But the answer is France.

Rome

>>3007774
>France
>an empire
You can't have both.

>>3007819
>>3007774
i wish we had flags so we could laugh at french flags

>>3007744

technicaly its the british but underneath all that the mongols had a huge ripple effect

>>3007941
I wish you knew how to read so you wouldn't get lost trying to find /int

>>3007774
>>3007819
>>3007928

>France

The Eternal Frenchman never rests

Mali Empire

>>3008016
The modern world was basically invented by France, with some accessory participation from Britain (a French colony).

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>>3008070

*teleports behind you*

Not so fast frenchman

>>3007744
The first one, the Akkadian empire. It set the mold for every one after it, gave us certain concepts such as the base 12 number system (used for time and measurement across the globe). No other empire is really that different from what they started doing.

>>3007889
damn I said this too and didn't even read your post

It´s kind of arbitrary because culture and science are continuous phenomena. This influenced that other one, but the first had already been influenced by others. There are cultures that weren´t empires at all, but were hugely influential. The proto-Indo-European weren´t even a settled people and Indo-European is the largest language group, spoken all around the globe.

But if I had to pick, Rome and Albion.

>>3008070
Are you just anti-Anglo memeing or do you have some evidence for that?

>>3007758
This.

Mexican Empire

>>3007744
Only mental illness would lead someone not to say Roman Empire

>>3008709
This

Inca empire obviously. You literally cannot imagine what would happen to the world weren't they've been conquered.

>>3008709
No, the guy who said Akkadian empire was correct. Rome gave us our (European) culture, but Akkadians created the very concept of an empire. Without Akkad, there would be no Rome.

>>3008242
Literally what part of the modern world isn't French? And what do Anglos have to do with anything?

>>3008795
>created the very concept of an empire.

China and South America made Empires without their help

>>3008816
But not Europe. You can clearly see the continuum from Akkadians through Assyrians and Phoenicians to Greeks and then Romans.

The Ottomans.

>>3008709
>>3008767
Name one significant thing ancient Rome contributed to the world.

You delusional fucking idiots.

>>3008795
>Rome gave us our (European) culture

Dear God what the fuck are you even talking about

>>3008709
The question is for the modern world. No empire has effected modern politics and economics like the British.

>>3007758
this

>>3008829
Concrete

>>3008831
>Roman religion (Christianity)
>Roman law
>Latin alphabet
>Latin was the official language in most of Europe until 18th/19th century
>shitload of Latin loanwords in every European language
Are you pretending otherwise?

No mention of Teh Jews yet?
Amateurs!
It's a sneaky empire, like all the good ones are.
JEW IS ETERNAL!

>>3008846
That's Greek.

>>3008869
He probably thinks that culture = music and tv series.

>>3008869
>>Roman religion (Christianity)

Oh I thought you were serious for a moment.

>>3008875
I am Greek

What's with all these retardedly delusional 12 year old romeboos on this board, did you all watch Gladiator last weekend?

best book about British empire?

>>3007758
This

Maybe the Portuguese because without slaves from Africa the western world wouldn't have been built.

>>3008886
This boards always been romeaboos you fucking faggot

Hitler's

>>3008117
Give us deets on these guys plz anon

>>3007774
Good answer.

>>3009909
So they are white in the inside?

>>3008841
They dutch for economics, french for government.

>>3007758
This

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>>3007758
fpbp

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>>3009778

>>3007744
Roman Empire created civilisation as we know it, British Empire globalised it.

>>3007774
t. jacques

Roman
this isn't debatable

Impact increases exponentially with proximity to present, so American empire

>>3007774
This, unironically. The conflict in Indochina was pivotal in both decolonization and the Cold War, and Algeria gave rise to Islamic nationalism.

>>3007758

This

>>3007744
The first one, the second one and so on, the question is irrellevant.

french one
they gave law to shitloads of countries

britbongs on suicide watch

>>3007744
I really, really like those hips and breasts

>>3007774
>French Empire
They had an empire?

>>3007774
Fourth post best post

>>3007903
Yeah, real empires own tracts of west African wasteland.

>>3010873
>wasteland
Nigel please.

>>3008829
Republic, senate

>>3010717
Serious question: are you american?

>>3010909
British, but I don't sew what you're asking

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>>3007744

>>3010909
oui, je suis americain

>>3007744
On the modern world?
the British
Overall, I'd argue the Arab caliphates simply because Islam wouldn't be so widespread and influential if they didn't expand through conquest and trade.

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Do you really have to ask?

>>3008869
The question was modern world though. If we're going to go on who gave us the things that gave us things, this thread should be posts of rule34 quarks

>>3007758
This

Serbia

>>3007758
this

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>>3012394
>England was created by France
this is bait

>>3010663
>Algeria gave rise to Islamic nationalism
Lol no it appeared with the iranian revolution

>>3007744
>ctrl+f
>no Spanish
>1 Portuguese

Shouldn't it be one of these two? I personally like the British, French, and Dutch Empires way more, but it seems like these were the ones who started it. Portuguese created the European slave trade (inb4 Arab slave trade) and I'm sure Spanish expansionism motivated the English and Dutch to get their shit together.

I would personally say England was more important than France. The British Empire itself was huge and civilized many different parts of the world, like India, and basically built the system of free trade capitalism that would later be used by another power, the Americans, who are the closest we've gotten to a unipolar world since the Roman Empire and are objectively a creation of the British Empire.

Why would the French Empire outrank this? I'm not questioning the view, I admittedly don't know that much about the french and am curious.

>>3007774
this

>>3007744
Persia through Zoroastrianism which inspired the Abrahamic faiths

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>>3012824

>>3012394
>Some fr*nch autist actually took the time to make this

>>3008881
Christianity is a Greco-Roman religion using Jewish characters.

>>3007744
HOLY
ROMAN
EMPIRE

>>3010915
Trajan's conquests did a good job of destabilizing Rome.

>>3013369
Hadrian withdrawing from those conquests did that.

>>3007744
It's a tie between the Finns and the H*ns

>>3007774
French are pompous idiots. Your greatest claim to fame, the French Revolution, was an absolute failure that birthed one of the worst regimes in European history AND is completely BTFO by the earlier success of the American revolution.

>>3013521
>Your
I guarantee that he's probably just a British troll trying to bait everyone

>>3007744
What language are we speaking right now?

>>3013599
A Frankish tongue?

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>>3007744
no question

>>3008829
unironically hang yourself

all time: rome
current times: USA

>>3007774
>Empire rose and fell within the latter years of the reign of George III.
>Almost entirely cucked by the UK and Russia, barley leaving Europe.
>Spend the next 100 years learning to please your British masters as a means of clinging to relevance.
>Spend the next 100 years doing the same but for your American masters (who are just Brits that you helped secede from Britain).
I could, off the top of my head think of at-least 100 Brits more influential than the most exalted Frenchman whose probably Pascal; Napoleon is important but not as important as /his/ thinks and he's barely french.

>>3012394
France is more of a creation of the UK than the UK is of France.

>>3013651
>France is only surpassed by its descendants
That's only fair. France created England and the USA after all

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>>3013659
France didn't create England though. Did Germany create France? There's a stronger case there considering the origin of the Franks.
Honestly there's even a stronger case for Germany creating England.
I know France and all the pube-tashed "cappuccino to go" pseuds consider France some lone bleeding beacon of civility but even a perfunctory examination reveals it to be MAYBE the fifth most historically relevant country in Europe.

>>3013693
Charlemagne created Germany, therefore France created Germany, so when Germany created England, then France created England by proxy.

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>>3007744
>Roman Empire
Spreading culture and knowledge throughout most of Europe and making the basis of our civilization, aswell and being the base of the latin languages. Marked the rise of Europe

>Portuguese Empire
Creating modern colonialism, the atlantic slave trade/triangular trade and global mercantilism which would the base of later empires. Marked the beginning of european dominance

>British Empire
The biggest colonial empire which gave birth to the USA, the modern day superpower and the modern lingua franca, also the industrial revolution was one of the big happenings in history. Brought a lot of inovation into the world

>Spanish/French Empires
Big cultural and linguistic mark in the world, countless inventions and ideologies, big players in history

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>>3013705
Charlemagne was probably born in Germany, regardless the Franks were literally a Germanic tribe.
Anglo-Saxon settlement of GB pre-dates the birth of Charlemagne, heck it even pre-dates the conversion of the Franks to Christianity.
The argument that France created England and apparently by extension the UK is predicated on a conquest that was nearly a thousand years ago (and demographically wasn't very consequential) and quite frankly it's embarrassing, especially when you consider Anglo-Saxons successfully invaded France within living memory.
Heck even the Dutch have a greater claim to creation the UK, glorious revolution and all, but they never mention it because they have actual achievements to be proud of unlike the French who seem to only really excel at arrogance, delusion and surrender.

>>3013521
>the French Revolution, was an absolute failure
>as the majority of the current world, including France, lives under constitutional democracies/republics

>>3007819
>French
>Start two world wars
The eternal German strikes again

>>3013782
>the depths of the Anglo denial mechanism
You don't have to deny your heritage. Lord knows the Americans don't.

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>all these triggered Anglos
Talk about an inferiority complex

>>3007744
The United States

China

>>3010503
Kek

>>3012394
t.Frog

>>3013693
Where the fuck is Romania

>>3012824
>>3013657

Just when you thought bongs couldn't get any more delusional

>>3013693
Do you literally not know about the Norman conquest?

>>3013705
>>3013693
Germany didn't exist until 1871.

>>3007774
What ultimately influenced the French Empire?

Romans and Greeks.

Checkmate faggot.

>>3013633
Pretty much the answer I expected given the lack of Roman achievement and the inability of romeboos to think critically.

>>3008829
The alphabet you're using right now you stupid fucking faggot.

>>3014479
>they knew how to write
Wow truly impressive, nobody achieved that before.

You massive cumguzzling moron.

>>3014487
Please Schlomo stop getting so cunthurt, it's been 2000 years since they demolished that temple. Let it go.

>>3014479
Why do so many idiots get so emotionally invested in ancient Rome and refuse to admit that it was completely mediocre?

>>3012394
Lmao
Can Britain now claim credit for any of the US's achievements?

>>3014505
Why would it? The US was created by France.

>>3014553
>creation matters more than culture and descendens

>>3014553
Also
>Creating a country is the same as installing a new ruling nobility
I guess the mongols created China huh

>>3014567
>>3014630
Just how bootyblasted do you have to be to still be this much in denial about your own history after 1000 years? lmfao

>>3014683
>lmao you guys are so fucking stupid
Great argument there mate.

>>3007774
10/10 post

>>3007744
Mongol

>>3007758
This

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>>3007744
>mfw people in this thread are posting empires other than Rome and new Rome aka America

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>>3016117
>America
>New Rome

>>3016117
American Delusion.

>>3016486
>>3016503
>America
>not Rome
also please sauce me the OP pic

>>3007768
>>3007871
>>3010698
>>3016676
Nevermind I found it https://www.instagram.com/itsjustajlove/?hl=en

>>3016486
>>3016503
Correct, the comparison is absurd.

Unlike Rome, America actually achieved a few thing, like inventing the microchip and the Internet.

>>3007744
The ones who first went beyond the Bojador cape.

>>3007744
As shit as it is the answer is america not because it`s the most great or influential politiclly but because it controls the tv and movies. Which ever country you are from at least 30- to 50% of TV is american and probably almost all movies and that influences kid´s most these days and that affects how people dress and talk and act. As much as america is shit

>>3012394
Germany should be 1871

>>3007758
For better and for worse, this. Trying to figure if that impact was net positive or negative.

>Spread infrastructure and education across the globe.
>Massacred a lot more people than is often realized.

They're like The Empire in Star Wars if The Empire had a dedicated contingent of professionals truly concerned about bringing education and career training to the Jawas on Tattooine.

>>3013599
A pidgin language used by Romans to pick up local whores?

>>3008000
>/int
>back to r/france

>>3007744
the mongol empire, without Genghis 90% of us wouldn't exist

Meme answer: British Empire
Contrarian Answer: Ottoman Empire
(Its collapse led to Renaissance, shaped Balkans and Mediterra)
Real Answer: Mongol Empire

>>3017840
>Its collapse led to Renaissance
It collapsed in the fallout of WWI. However, its influence on the Balkans and Mediterranean region are undeniable. Were you trying to say that it influenced the Renaissance? Because that's certainly true.

>>3008795
Empire
>A concept
Idk mate the basis of empire is dominating other humans, i
And that instinct is itself primeval. Thats like saying somebody invented competition

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>>3007774
>>3007819
>>3010092
>>3010663
>>3010751
>>3013003

This sort of silliness just cracks me up laughing. Let's all remind ourselves about the famous French Industrial Revolution......

Oh wait, at least they introduced garlic flavoured snails to the world. Kek.

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>>3017850
Im not talking about literal collapse, Im talking about the "being a sick cripple state that gets bullied" collapse. With many intellectuals in and at the borders of Ottoman Empire fled to Europe, Renaisance began. Considering the Dark Ages were recently over in Europe, they were in need of scientific and artistic pioneers.

>>3017880
>Anglo dick waving

>>3007758
this

>>3013782
"Germanic" tribe doesn't make them German, definitely not the German we know today. its an argument based on terminology we use to describe them today, not back then.

>>3013116
stop with this cens*r autism

>>3007744
Why was OPs image deleted?

Also Roman Empire.

>>3012394

England was created by the frogs but the UK wasn't, suete fuquine spacquer.

>>3018955
>autism

>>3017630
>East Francia
>Kingdom of Germany
>HRE

Rome and hes sons

Rome or the Mongols.

>>3007774
this
>>3007758
not this

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This question is retarded. Any Empire that happened earlier has an incredibly unfair advantage in how much "influence" they have on the world, simply due to the butterfly effect. A monkey living 1,000,000 years ago that accomplished literally nothing and just ate and reproduced has more effect on the modern world than the British empire, simply because the monkey's children continued to reproduce exponentially and make up a huge population and went on the evolve into humans and because every single action the monkey took butterfly effected and has a huge impact. Sage.

>>3008886
FACT: anyone who studies history becomes a Romanboo

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>>3008886
>implying some unwashed Gallic and Hispanian barbarians or some tea sipping faggots on some lonely island became enlightened and went on to be obelisks of power and civilization of their accord

they are all sons of Rome and Greece, even that prodigal bastard that is Germania