Empires

[Josh]

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?

[rabby]

I would probably say the Romans. They were more advanced for their time, and truly conquered everyone (exept us Scots of course ). The British empire was more of colonies spread all over the place, whereas the Romans simply ruled everyone on the continent.

[Sticky Blue]

The Romans for me... they had an empire that was the world and they did it all by foot without tank support or radio and sat comms. A resupply would take an age. "Hullo 0 this XXI resupply spears and arrows at Londinium Bridge over"... "Hullo XXI resupply will be in 12 months out".
They were the father of tactics and the development of modern military strategies and tactics.




Don't forget law and order, sanitation, roads, wolf nipple chips etc

[Josh]

A massive empire it was

[Whitey]

Israel, they own the worlds governments, cause wars across the planet and never send their own soldiers to do their bidding.

[Wholley]

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?
Wholley.

[Josh]

The Brits

[Sticky Blue]

We had one and a half Australias... they were the days! Still the Romans for me. They created rather than took. They also created the class system, law, politics, ordered society and loads more. I am a patriot but can't think of much that we created apart from Tiffin and we probably robbed that as well!

[Wholley]

Josh,
Your map seems to have left out
a good portion of the eastern US.
You know,the thirteen colonies.
Wholley.

[Josh]

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!

[Josh]

wholley,

The map depicts the empire in 1904, other than that I haven't an answer for you mate.

[Wholley]

Hey up Josh,
I think the movie is attempting to span all ten novels.
Do they remind you of Hornblower BTW.
Wholley.

[Josh]

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!

[Josh]

Ta Da!

[Aldo]

The British!! How can say otherwise!!

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.