first roman empire, then the Greeks and maybe the Mayan ,are we next?

Question

is like if we are gonna be next (americans) do you think that is possible to happen to us and if is gonna be the same that other culture wil replace us just like we did with the past cultures i know were are only a country but remember that we are a big as it was the roman empire are the greeks on their time please only serious aswers thank you .

Answer 1

Without glossing over greatness of the mayans etc The greeks and the romans,left a lasting legacy for europe Then came the british empire,the biggest by far that the world has seen.These empires were about conquest The USA started out to dominate through commerce,This they succeeded in doing.However they had to develope a strong military, to protect this trade

Answer 2

I think we'd be a little too arrogant if we think we have more staying power than the Roman Empire, just because we have bigger guns. The Romans pretty much got stretched too thin, and were eventually unable to control the "barbarians," who really were mostly Romanized at that point and just wanted to be treated like Roman citizens. Let's see--we're in South Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan. . .

Answer 3

Yes the American Empire will be the next to fall.
All empires reach a point where they become ungovernable and undefendable.
Hurricane Katrina gave us just a glimpse of that in New Orleans

Answer 4

All great world powers rise and fall, it's the way history goes. The only way to delay the decline is to learn from the mistakes of other great powers that preceded you (learning from ones own mistakes can be costly)

But don't worry, the collapse will probably not happen during your lifetime. As I see it, America has just reached it's zenith.

Answer 5

wrong empires.

Krete established an empire in the Aegean as an organized island state, before it was destroyed by the Mycenaean Greeks.

Athens used long walls to its harbor to make itself essentially an island empire, before it fell to the Lacadaemonians and their allies.

Rhodes became a very powerful state based on its island location until it fell to Rome.

Venice became a very powerful empire based on its island location until it lost its empire to the Muslims.

Holland relied on its canals to be essentially an island empire until it was supplanted by England.

England relied on its island status to allow it to develop a massive empire.

Japan tried to use its island status to conquer an empire in China and Korea, but the U.S. stopped it.

The U.S. is like the others, essentially an island empire. Like the others we rely upon our navy for our primary defense. We are a trading empire, having a smaller population then other nations but relying upon our strategic defense of the ocen and our vast wealth to give us great power.

The other great empires fell because the other nations got organized and were able to take control of their own territory. Their wealth increased and they were able to take trade away from the island, which was limited in its population.

The U.S. may avoid this outcome for awhile by merging with Canada, Mexico or other countries to expand our population. But as we are seeing with China and India, a country of 300 million eventually has trouble competing with countries of over a billion people.

Answer 6

Yup, and don't forget the British Empire.

In fact, I reckon the US is round about the state of Victorian Britain, wide variations in wealth, surface religion and private depravity and a tendency to try enforce peace through force. We called it "Gunboat Diplomacy."

Answer 7

Of course, for the past 30 years we have basically been planning our own demise.

Answer 8

what?

Answer 9

PROBABLY