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Unfortunately, quite a few guys end up obsessed with that one.
Does it even count as an empire? He had what, 5-6 years occupying parts of Europe?
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
parts of Europe
Quite big parts
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Do science fiction empires count? Because I got imperium of man
Yes, but unfortunately the credits won't transfer out.
Sweet. Terran Empire it is. Everyone gets a goatee! I'm not a guy though so it may not count :(
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Unofficial ruling:
Yes, they count.
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I'm glad I got included as the orange speech bubble.
Today is Chicome Coatl (7 Snake) in the Tonalpohualli. Party on nerds.
Ah. The Persian empire then.
Well, one of several
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I was assigned The Scythians late in life
Wait... You're only supposed to get one? Do I return the others somehow? Is there any support email or phone I can contact?
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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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
He was so excited about his pick that he BECAME part of the Department
Does the Byzantine Empire count or do we kind of file that under Rome?
It has its own Wikipedia page, so it checks out.
1,000,000% counts and is not the same thing as the Roman Empire.
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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I think you get to make that call.
That wow looks like it's coming out of that butt
Plebs are obsessed with empires.
Level up and start being interested in ideologies, mythologies, languages and in larger terms, cultures.
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Only since the last season of Cosmos got me obsessed with the Indus Valley Civilization. I'm over 40.
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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Mine just said "the Daevites", and the walls started dripping blood when I opened it. Should I be concerned?
Hmmm... "The Galactic Empire" eh? I can work with that.
I got the Grateful Dead as a freshman in uni and have stuck with that.
Excuse me, mine says "Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere" but it's not doing anything. Can I get a new one?
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.
Klingon. For glory!
"Britain"
mordern wars, though mostly world war 2 here. so i guess its american and european modern empires.
I have been obsessed with the fall of empires because that means that this shitty capitalist hellscape won't be around forever.
Songhai Empire? Hell yessssss!
Could be worse, could be obsessed with the British Empire.
Those gammon cunts are a bit annoying.
The Nobunaga and Tokugawa Shogunates.
And I'm not even a weeb. I only like, like, 6 animes. 😌
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If I pick the same country every time I play Civ, can I test out of this course?
I got Dhakaani
The Seleucid would like to have a word with management.
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