Was this the single most incompetent empire in history?
>>1299696
The American empire is by far
>>1299723
>The American empire
Not an empire, bub.
>>1299696
ERE
>>1299723
>empire
Youre dumb mate
>>1299696
It's a tie between this and the Palmyrene empire.
Fuck you, the Seleukid Empire was great you Ptolemy loving Roman cocksucking barbarian.
>>1299770
>Defending a crappy rump state of a much better empire.
Disgraceful.
>>1299696
Mali Empire.
The only thing they are remembered for is crushing the Egyptian money with no survivors.
Austria
>>1299696
Yes.
>>1299791
That's not what incompetence is.
>ctrl f
>no HRE
>>1299881
Not an empire.
>>1299696
HRE, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Qing Empire.
>>1299881
desu the Hoy Roman Empire for all of its short comings was pretty good. It was the Reich that lasted for a thousand years.
Yes, they lost to the maccabees
>>1299791
Lel I just read up on that. Mansa Musa 10/10 economic trolling
>>1299723
>Not knowing the difference between hegemonic and imperial power
Your ignorance saddens me brother, but you know what brother gets me down brother? You said that unironically.
>>1299696
Nubian, Mali
>>1299696
Japanese?
Only able to defeat over-matched foes.
In fighting a foe with similar technology, made a critical error (because said foe had infinitely greater resources), bringing about its demise.
And finally, it was VERY short-lived.
>>1299890
It only lasted because it was an empire in name only but a confederation of independent entities in actual practice. The "Emperor" spent all his time trying to keep all the counts and dukes happy that there wasn't any real "imperial" ambitions to be had
>>1300292
One could argue that all feudal monarchies were confederations, with vassals paying lip surface and being loosely united under their lord's banner. The HRE, for most of its history, was no different organizationally from its contemporaries, just at a larger scale as it was the largest entities in Latin Europe (Latin as in excluding the ERE and Rus). But as Europe entered the Early Modern Period, while most states entered into a more centralized model of governance, the HRE failed to accomplish such, for several factors, the most significant being religious tension. The 30 Years War reeeeeeally fucked up the HRE.
>>1299696
The Mexican Empire.
I win
>>1299790
>much better empire
that "much better empire" melted right after Alexander died, the only good thing about Alexander's empire was Alexander and his army.
>>1299696
Haitian Empire and Central African Empire are both strong contenders for worst """""empire""""" of all time
>>1300434
This.
Nothing else compares.
>>1299723
I came here to call you a retard
>>1299791
They survived for 3 centuries until a civil war toar apart the Empire. That's not really incompetence.
How good is Tricare? Is it any better/worse than the benefits a normal government employee would get?
>>1300684
Wrong thread, whoops
>>1299696
Byzantine Empire
>>1300748
what is it about greeks ruling easterners that dooms them to failure?
>>1299696
As long as Alexander was dead, a Hellenic empire in that area was never going to work for long.
>>1300800
It lasted for more than two centuries.
>>1299791
Your empire being ruled by history's biggest baller is not incompetence
>>1299696
>>1300849
Calm down Stelios, you got debts to pay
The meme of HRE being a meme state is the worst meme ever
not as incompetent as the umayyads. fuck islam.
>>1299696
>No Eternal Anglo shitposting
Thanks, God!
>>1301245
Umayyad, Christian?
>>1301258
The Eternal Anglo is evil and mischievous, not incompetent. It's actually pretty competent on the dark arts of perfidity and deception.
>>1299881
OP said empire.
>>1300423
>Alexander and his army
was shiet and you know it
>>1300841
figured it was only time before this got posted. I'd actually like to find out more about the Seleucid Empire desu
>>1300761
they get taken away by the eastern way of living with strange monotheistic cultures(aka christianity and so) and they usually get rich from multicultural societies and economy so they lose the drive to improve more.
>>1299696
>incompetent
It was a population of like 20,000 Greeks and Macedonians holding down a population 500 times bigger. That's not incompetence.
Austria-Hungary
Korean Empire.
>>1301273
References to
>Eternal Anglo
=
Eternal butthurt.
>>1299696
If there had been no Alexander, what would the Persian empire look like.
Would they conquer Greece or just leave them for the ultimate Roman conquest.
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>Empire
>>1299696
I wonder why...
>>1307208
They couldn't Expand more
They were already exceptionally big for their time and were Only Surpassed in size in 600's by the Umayyad
Even the Romans and Han China while coming close were still smaller in size by a large margin and still couldn't expand more
>>1305414
Strange since Anglos are the most butthurt people on the internet whenever anyone says anything bad about them.
