Is the United States empire the quickest one in history to fall from power?

Question

The Romans, Greeks and British made it at least 1000 years.

Answer 1

First, we haven't fallen from power yet so who's to say we won't last 1000 years. Second, the answer is clearly the Soviet Union. They went from arguably being the most powerful nation/state on the planet (certainly the second most powerful) to oblivion in 20 years; from creation of the Soviet Union to collapse was approx. 70 years.

Answer 2

As for the greeks the Athenian empire lasted a bit less. The polopeneasian league of the Spartans the same. ROmans 400 not quite 1000. England a few centuries.
The US as a major civilization is going down in record time. Its decent will be the quickest i thik. We're living in it amd most people don't have a clue as long as the tv is still playing

Answer 3

Combined, the Greeks and Romans did not last 1000. Alexander was circa 325 bc. His empire fell apart as soon as he died, less than 5 years after he started. Rome was not an empire until Augustus, circa 40 BC, and collapsed of it's own weight in 410 AD.
The British did not have an Empire in the early days, until their defeat of Napoleon in 1812.

The United States is not an empire, and has not fallen from power. We're still the big boys on the block, just not aggressive like Rome!

Answer 4

We haven't fallen from power yet, and not even close to it. We have survived for 220 years since Delaware was made the first state. Let alone, a bunch of peasants defeating the Red Coats during the Revolution

Answer 5

None of those empires lasted a thousand years. The U.S. remains to be seen. Institutions have their ups and downs. We will have to see as the years pass.

Answer 6

we had to do comments on presidents interior the 5th grade. my pal regarded hers up on the cyber web and it reported. "..while he became youthful he chased little women named darby and we killed at age 9 while he became hit interior the pinnacle via a flying apple-grape fruit despatched from the god of happy geese. he then grew as much as be the president of the USA." we died guffawing

Answer 7

We are the oldest democratic representitive republic in the history of the world and we aren't going ANYWHERE! You have been sold a bill of goods by lefties.

Answer 8

Well, lets see. First, the US isn't an empire...though it surely looks like we're trying to be, we aren't there yet.