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Which empire was more impressive; Roman or British?

Do you think the USA and the preposed Euro superstate are the nearest things we will have for an empire of the future?
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I would probably say the Romans. They were more advanced for their time, and truly conquered everyone (exept us Scots of course :wink: ). The British empire was more of colonies spread all over the place, whereas the Romans simply ruled everyone on the continent.
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A massive empire it was
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Israel, they own the worlds governments, cause wars across the planet and never send their own soldiers to do their bidding.
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The British for me.
Just on pure land mass and populus,they far outweighed the Romans.
Anyone seen"Master and Commander"yet.
I'm too cheap to pay to see it,so I guess I'll wait until it's out on DVD.
For some reason DVD sounds a little sexual or is it just my fixations?
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The Brits
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Josh,
Your map seems to have left out
a good portion of the eastern US.
You know,the thirteen colonies.
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wholley,

I am reading 'Master & Commander' at the moment, good book. The only odd thing about the film is It is called 'Master & Commander The Far Side of the World', Whereas in Novel format M & C is the first Aubrey & Maturin adventure and FSOTW is the tenth. Defenately some hollywood botching going on!
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wholley,

The map depicts the empire in 1904, other than that I haven't an answer for you mate.
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Hey up Josh,
I think the movie is attempting to span all ten novels.
Do they remind you of Hornblower BTW.
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Can't really say until I have read a couple more Aubrey-Matrin novels, I personally perferre 'Master and Commander' to Hornblower, so far anyway!
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Ta Da!
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The British!! How can say otherwise!! :o

ahem... what I meant to say was... it has to be the British, like others have said they had the biggest and contorary to popular belief size DOES matter.
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