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What is your favorite Empire in History and Why?

Submitted by SteveTheEagle on March 27, 2026
What ancient empire(i.e roman, mongol, ummayyid, etc) Is your favorite and why is it so?
15 Comments
Marjamjelly
+2
Level 57
Mar 27, 2026
The Ottomans. Cool architechture
Pontiac
+3
Level 61
Mar 27, 2026
Roman. They were extremely important of how we do stuff today like language and construction.
IridiumPingo
+4
Level 39
Mar 27, 2026
Roman Empire, it is really interesting seeing all the battles and seeing how todays society is mimicking the mistakes of the late Roman republic
FreeStater
+1
Level 81
Mar 27, 2026
The Central African Empire was probably the most insane.

Effectively though, the Roman (founded modern society) and Russian (extremely diverse in both nations and geography) empires are my favorites.

SteveTheEagle
+1
Level 54
Mar 27, 2026
wdym insane? What did they do
Wizzandy
+3
Level 51
Mar 27, 2026
The british empire because they managed to control a quarter of the earths land which a mind blowing feat.
Pontiac
+5
Level 61
Mar 27, 2026
Ah yes, the empire that conquered a quarter of the world looking for spices only to not use them...
Swatcat
+1
Level 78
Mar 28, 2026
I’m wondering who in Britain was ambitious enough for Britain to aim to control the world.. they did end up controlling more than a hundred lands including an entire sub-continent! No one ends up ruling a quarter of the world’s surface just like that.

Was it Queen Victoria? The Empire grew the most under her.. I visited the palace where she grew up and she seems to have been a petite girl, who grew up in a small island country…

azerifactory
+1
Level 47
Mar 27, 2026
I love Roman Empire because it combined power, engineering, law, and culture in a way few civilizations ever matched.
Swatcat
+2
Level 78
Mar 28, 2026
Point!

Roman concrete, for example can last for 2k plus years.. and the recipe for that is still unknown and wanted! One ingredient is apparently volcanic ash. Some of their aqueducts, for example, still exist!

Froggodoggo
+2
Level 65
Mar 28, 2026
I might be biased but the Majapahit are pretty cool
Swatcat
+1
Level 78
Mar 28, 2026
I admire the Greek empire for helping introduce the world to a lot of foundational concepts like equality and democracy. -Although our planet is still taking its own sweet time in getting those.. to a major extent.

I realised that some of these civilisations co-existed and were interconnected and seem to have traded in not just some goods, but culture and concepts as well. For example- Dholavira, a 5k year old Indus Valley civilisation site ( also a UNESCO World heritage site) in Gujarat, in Western India, was a port which traded with Mesopotamia and perhaps Egypt.

Aficionado
+1
Level 72
Mar 29, 2026
Small correction, the port was in Lothal which was contemporary and very integrated with Dholavira.
Swatcat
+1
Level 78
Mar 29, 2026
The way I understand it, - Dholavira ( which I visited) used to be a port, and next to the sea coast. Lothal also belonged to the Indus Valley civilisation. I’m sure they traded with each other.

The local archaelogists told us that they used to trade with Mesopotamia and maybe Egypt. I was talking about the trade and exchange of ideas between civilisations existing simultaneously.

Gujarat has been trading with the Gulf for 5k plus years, and dhows would ply back and forth, until recently, I think.

NEGeo
+2
Level 65
Mar 28, 2026
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