Mexicas. There was no Aztec Empire.
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Plebs are obsessed with empires.
Level up and start being interested in ideologies, mythologies, languages and in larger terms, cultures.
I agree.... I'm obsessed with certain native tribes cultures. It's probably because our culture sucks and we are unconsciously searching for a better way
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(Source, btw.)
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
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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 :(
Goatee and/ or Shiny clothes
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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.
The Nobunaga and Tokugawa Shogunates.
And I'm not even a weeb. I only like, like, 6 animes. 😌
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That wow looks like it's coming out of that butt
Wait... You're only supposed to get one? Do I return the others somehow? Is there any support email or phone I can contact?
Sumerians. Cuneiform. Suck it everyone who came after.
Homer? Try the Epic of Gilgamesh, you posers!
Allow me to once again recommend The Fall of Civilizations Podcast. It's excellent.
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
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If I pick the same country every time I play Civ, can I test out of this course?
I was assigned The Scythians late in life
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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I got the Grateful Dead as a freshman in uni and have stuck with that.
Does the Byzantine Empire count or do we kind of file that under Rome?
I think you get to make that call.
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 got the martians. it's a future empire, does that still count?
Thank goodness I'm too old to give a incan shit about this.
Only since the last season of Cosmos got me obsessed with the Indus Valley Civilization. I'm over 40.
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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.
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!
Do the Etruscans count?
Team Etruscans ftw mother fuckers!
"Britain"
Songhai Empire? Hell yessssss!
Ancient Egypt checking in.
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