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[-] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago
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Unfortunately, quite a few guys end up obsessed with that one.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Does it even count as an empire? He had what, 5-6 years occupying parts of Europe?

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

I would say yes, just a very short-lived one. I'd struggle to come up with a definition of an empire that excluded Nazi Germany short of just arbitrarily imposing a minimum required lifespan. It was definitely a large, powerful, expansionist state that conquered other areas in order to subjugate them for the benefit of a metropole. The Reichskommisariats were basically intended as colonial administrations, not to mention client states like Slovakia

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

parts of Europe

Quite big parts

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

What's the significance of the numbers?

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[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago

Do science fiction empires count? Because I got imperium of man

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

Yes, but unfortunately the credits won't transfer out.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Sweet. Terran Empire it is. Everyone gets a goatee! I'm not a guy though so it may not count :(

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Unofficial ruling:

Yes, they count.

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

I'm glad I got included as the orange speech bubble.

Today is Chicome Coatl (7 Snake) in the Tonalpohualli. Party on nerds.

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Ah. The Persian empire then.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

I was assigned The Scythians late in life

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Mughals are pretty cool, Mongol guy is right

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Genghis Kahn did nothing wrong, he did it all for Börte.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

i was assigned Ancient Egypt pretty early on, i made my mum read to me things like the process of mummification for bedtime stories

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Wait... You're only supposed to get one? Do I return the others somehow? Is there any support email or phone I can contact?

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Mongol guy's font change has been living in my head all afternoon. Why is it only him? Why does getting the Mongol empire make him start speaking in a Charles-Rennie-Mackintosh-looking font? Like, the artist obviously likes to play it loose with typefaces in the rest of the comic too, but this one guy seems like the centre of the typographical attention and I do not understand the choices made

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

He was so excited about his pick that he BECAME part of the Department

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Does the Byzantine Empire count or do we kind of file that under Rome?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

It has its own Wikipedia page, so it checks out.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

What about the Holy Roman empire of German Nation?

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

1,000,000% counts and is not the same thing as the Roman Empire.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I'd argue it is the same thing, it's just that the Roman Empire lasted so long and it was changing the whole time, so it's often necessary to compartmentalise it to a degree

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I think you get to make that call.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

That wow looks like it's coming out of that butt

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Plebs are obsessed with empires.

Level up and start being interested in ideologies, mythologies, languages and in larger terms, cultures.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Only since the last season of Cosmos got me obsessed with the Indus Valley Civilization. I'm over 40.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

This is arguably more of a Sumer question, but how do you feel about the theory that the Indus Valley Civilisation can be identified as the Meluhha that the early Mesopotamians traded with?

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

I got the Grateful Dead as a freshman in uni and have stuck with that.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think they're just supposed to be interests, not religions.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Caliphates still count.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Hmmm... "The Galactic Empire" eh? I can work with that.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Mine just said "the Daevites", and the walls started dripping blood when I opened it. Should I be concerned?

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Bah empires! Give me the wild people running free. I want to paint myself blue and run down a hill naked screaming at some Italians.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Excuse me, mine says "Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere" but it's not doing anything. Can I get a new one?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Klingon. For glory!

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I have been obsessed with the fall of empires because that means that this shitty capitalist hellscape won't be around forever.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

mordern wars, though mostly world war 2 here. so i guess its american and european modern empires.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Songhai Empire? Hell yessssss!

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The Nobunaga and Tokugawa Shogunates.

And I'm not even a weeb. I only like, like, 6 animes. 😌

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Could be worse, could be obsessed with the British Empire.

Those gammon cunts are a bit annoying.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I got Dhakaani

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

If I pick the same country every time I play Civ, can I test out of this course?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

The Seleucid would like to have a word with management.

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