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Sep 09, 2004, 04:01 PM
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Deity
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Favorite Anchient Empire
What was your favorite ancient empire (when I say ancient, before the middle ages)?
Did a poll at school now want to see what happens online My is Byzantines. Dont know why, but they just are 
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Sep 09, 2004, 04:11 PM
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Spartiate
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Byzantines really didn't exist before the Middle Ages. Unless you wanna call the Eastern Roman Empire "Byzantine".
In orders of supreme coolness: -Romans -Spartans -Egyptians -Macedonians -Celts (Gaul) -China |
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Sep 09, 2004, 04:35 PM
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Hail Divine Emperor!
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Han Dynasty CHina
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Sep 09, 2004, 04:39 PM
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Great Khan
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- Achaemenid Persia
- Macedonia and the Diodochs - Xiong-Nu - Bactria - Egypt |
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Sep 10, 2004, 01:33 AM
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Vincebus Eruptum
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I could say Rome and I wouldn't be lying, but it is a common answer.
I will pick an uncommon answer and say the Assyrians (second incarnation). Important because they were the first empire to truly perfect the formula of military occupation and provencial administration. Really lasting for little more than 100 years they left a definite mark on the theory and techniques of regional dominance and vassalization for centuries; truly an essential influence. Quote:
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Sep 10, 2004, 06:59 AM
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Yeah!
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-Roman Empire
-Roman Republic -Minoa -Mycenaean greek States (including Troy) -Classical greek States, as well as the Etruscans -Tartessos -Egypt -Hatti -Babylon
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Sep 10, 2004, 09:39 AM
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Warlord
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- Athens ,Classical
- Macedonia ,Hellenistic - Rome ,Empire - Rome ,Republic - Sparta ,Classical |
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Sep 10, 2004, 02:14 PM
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Chieftain
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Pre middle ages...hmmmm
in order: Macedonia (Hellenistic, Philip & Alexander's age) Egyptian (Pharaoic ages) Lacdemonian (Spartan) Babylonian Egyptian (Ptolemeic dynasty) Roman |
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Sep 10, 2004, 04:12 PM
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Great Khan
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Quote:
 I can't believe I forgot them, them and the Sumerians make for some good reading.
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Sep 10, 2004, 04:20 PM
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Whale-raping abomination
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Anglo-Saxon England. There's just so many unanswered questions, and just so much sex and violence.
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Sep 10, 2004, 05:00 PM
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Now Farve-Proof
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rome !!
was there anyone else 
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Sep 10, 2004, 05:16 PM
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Royal Cartographer
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I very much dislike the Romans nowadays, though I used to be enchanted with them... China wasn't so interesting back then, the Greeks were pretty straightforward, Same with the Persians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Carthage, Rome, Celts, Egypt, though Tartessos is something of an enigma. I'd have to say, all the same, the Mauryan Empire of India.
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Sep 10, 2004, 06:13 PM
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The Frankish Empire. Technically pre-Middle Ages because the Middle Ages didn't begin until the division of Frankland in East, Middle and West. (Everything before that is the Dark Ages.) However, if I must choose one that is, without argument, pre-Middle Ages, I would say Phoenicia. It wasn't exactly an empire, but it was cool nonetheless. Ptolemid Egypt also gets a
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Sep 10, 2004, 06:34 PM
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Yeah!
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Sep 10, 2004, 09:55 PM
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I'd say the Aztecs, since their technology was pretty ancient, but technically they're a discovery-age empire. Still, in terms of style, the Aztecs have it all.
Not including the obvious (Rome), I'd say my favorite is the kingdom of Israel (later to be the kingdoms of Israel and Judah).
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Sep 10, 2004, 10:12 PM
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Mr Political Analyser
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Vikings
Dakota Sargon the II Assyrian? i forget, i believe it was him who had the lammasu(winged bull/lion) |
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Sep 10, 2004, 11:24 PM
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Diadoch
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Why, the Seleucids, of course.
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Sep 11, 2004, 04:18 AM
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Deity
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I love the Roman Empire, and the East Roman Byzantines, too.
I am also interested in the Middle Ages in general, not particularly tied to a specific nation. |
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Sep 11, 2004, 07:13 AM
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Deity
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Carthage. Hannibal's story is a sad one, betrayed by his allies, betrayed by the government who refused to send him supplies, and betrayed, in the end, by his own army.
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Sep 11, 2004, 07:21 AM
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Three Kingdoms Period is the BEST!!!!!!. but that wasn't not really an empire so i say Han Dynasty of China.
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