Time to play a game.
>Find a clever image for your choices.
>Discuss
Don't be too mad if you disagree with another's choices. Explain yourself.
And my entry to kick off the game:
>>419191
>Terra cotta army
>1-501 AD
nigga the terra cotta army was built over 200 years before christ.
>>419188
>Greece
>Greece
>Greece (499 - 190) Rome (190 - 1)
>Rome
>ERE
>couldnt say
>couldnt say
>British Empire
>United States
>>419191
It's supposed to represent the Han Dynasty in general; I placed it after Rome on a hair decision.
>>419205
You really can't choose an answer for the interim between the decline of Constantinople and the rise of the British Colonial era?
Git sum books tsk tsk
>>419188
I'll give it a shot:
Assyrian Empire, Roman Republic, Han Dynasties, Frankish Empire (under Charlemagne), Mongolian Empire, Ming Dynasty China, Prussia/Great Britain, and of course the United States of America.
>putting anything other than the spanish empire in 1501-1701
can't tell if black legend or extreme ignorance
>>419191
1-501
>Implying China was not a total mess between the collapse of the Jin and the establishment of the Sui.
501-1001
I would argue that the Tang and Song dynasties were far more significant than the emergence of Christendom in Europe. Unlike in Europe, It was a very productive period for literature, art, philosophy, technology, etc. in China.
Golden age of Chinese landscape painting > Pre-Romanesque nonsense
>Persia
>Rome
>Rome
>Frankish Empire
>Holy Roman Empire
>France
>Royal Brittania
>United Colonies of America
>>419188
>China
>China
>China
>China
>China
>China
>>419366
You forgot about China and China
>>419239
Why would the Assyrians be considered the most important?
I think the evidence of Carthage's maritime trade network far outshines the accomplishments of the Mesopotamian societies of the time.
Carthaginian sailors sailed from one end of the known world to the other!
>>419366
对啊!
>>419374
>Carthaginian sailors sailed from one end of the known world to the other!
Come on brah, even Herodotus thought that the Carthaginians' participation in the circumnavigation of Africa was bs.
The Periplus of Hanno is also pretty fishy.
The correct answer, give or take a few centuries.
>>419188
1000 - 499 B.C: Greece
499 B.C - 1 A.D: Rome
1 - 501 A.D: Rome & Byzantium
501 - 1001 A.D: Byzantium & Francia
1001 - 1501 A.D: France, Venice, HRE and England
1501 - 1701 A.D: France, Great Britain. Austria, Poland, Spain, Portugal and Ottomans
1701 - 1901 A.D: Russia, France, Great Britain, Prussia and Austria
1901 - Present day: USA, Russia, China, Germany and "Great" Britain
>>419444
You're mostly correct. Some of those should be split into a few different ones but for the sake of it, yes.
>>419410
Herodotus is the one who's full of shit. Greeks always thought they were the only real civilization in the Med for hundreds of years.
The wars that were fought over Sicily are a great example of Greeks getting beaten, therefore poisoning their ability to look at or talk about the Carthaginians objectively. Notice how they describe Persians, Indians and Central Asians? They were top tier xenophobes.
Give it to the Carthaginians, bro. They were truly the Romans before the Romans.
Neolithic to 466 BC - Egypt
466BC to 622 AD - Hellenistic
622 to 1258 - Muslim
1258 to 1492 - Chinese
1492 to 1648 - Iberian/Italian
1648 to 1914 - France/England/Germany
1914 to Present - The USA
>>419513
>622 to 1258 - Muslims
Mustafa pls
>>419520
The only strong contender is the Chinese, and they really don't compare.
>>419513
>Neolithic to 466 BC
Egypt was no longer a superpower by the end of the bronze age collapse, they were one of the few countries to defeat the sea peoples though, testament to how effective they were at the old way of doing things.
Flags are anachronistic, of course.
>>419513
>1492 to 1648
>Italian
>>419449
>1501 - 1701 A.D: France, Great Britain. Austria, Poland, Spain, Portugal and Ottomans
You missed one of the biggest naval/trade powers, one of the most liberal countries, one of the few republics. Can you guess which one?
>Poland
Unstable shithole
>Russia
How is feudalism going for you?
>Austria
Emperor of the HRE, but being emperor of the HRE is like being the boss of 4chan, its a messy bunch of morons trying to push their own views at everybodys cost
>France
Good pick
>GB
Yeah
>Spain
Big power everywhere.
>Portugal
Now, about the country i was missing in your list, do you know who rekt the portugeese spice trade? Well, that country deserves a place on your list.
>>420004
>You missed one of the biggest naval/trade powers, one of the most liberal countries, one of the few republics. Can you guess which one?
The Dutch?
>Unstable shithole
They did well during the Commonwealth until they got fucked
>How is feudalism going for you?
They were extremely successful in those year, including the expansion in to the east, defeating The Commonwealth, Sweden and taking the south.
>Austria
The basically dominated central Europe
>Portugal
More like Portupoor
>>420117
You're dumb
>>419840
I disagree with your choice of putting Spain among the 1000-1500 selections. Unless you are referring to the Hapsburgs, I really don't think the Spanish kings were hugely significant actors on the European stage until the beginning of the 16th century.
But once the renaissance began, the Hapsburg dynasty was arguably the most important institution on Earth until the 30 years war.
Bless the Bourbons for keeping them in check.
