The Romans Empire- The most dominant empire in history?

Question

Well they conquered, settled and ocupied all of europe, northern africa, parts of asia and england for thousands of years. They have to be right?
Not to mention there inventions of war, the weapons they had were completly unheard of during that time.

My mistake, i ment hundreds of years.

And how were the british the most doment empire in history? Compared to the romans surely not.

Answer 1

The Romans were. The Romans conquered all of the known world at their time (including present-day Britain). Not only that, but after the Roman Empire collapsed, the world moved backwards and had to start over.

Answer 2

The Romans arguably had the most dominant empire in history. Some may argue that the Khan's did, or that the Persian empire was the most dominant, but the Roman empire still influences today's society. First of all, let me settle this, Christianity had VERY LITTLE to do with the Roman empire. In fact originally most christians were persecuted. The Roman empire lasted over a thousand years depending on who you ask. The first 3-500 years of the Roman empire's existence showed that the Romans with their superior fighting skills, tactics, weapons, and knowledge clearly surpassed nearly all nearby cultures. The only real challenge to the Roman empire was the empire of Carthage, and we all know how that turned out. If not look what Romans did after they sacked Carthage after the last Punic War. The Romans not only set up a system of Roads such as the Via Appia throughout the Entire empire. It was one of the reasons why the Romans could hold so much land and keep it under control from Rome. The system of laws that developed as well as the integration of the Romans into other cultures that they conquered helped gain the loyalty of its subjects. Although the Romans adopted many different aspects of previous cultures, such as the greeks, and the persians, the Romans were able to adapt these aspects to everyday life and dominate the ancient world. The Roman empire as it had been was no longer after the Germanic tribes sacked Rome for the last time around 5 or 600 AD. However the Holy Roman empire lived on until the Renaissance. Roman roads, laws, Latin, and many other aspects have been adapted to our own lives. Look at Railroad tracks. the width between the rails is the exact same everywhere you go, the distance between two cart wheels on a Roman wagon.

Answer 3

The Romans were dominant and have set the example to be compared against. But they fell apart from internal discord, some believe that the empire had become to big to govern, others the political corruption. And many historians view the length of the Roman empire at about 800 years.

The Mongols did amass more territory and governed over more people and is often disregarded. But they did not reign as long as Roman the decline of the Mongol Empire began with the death of Kublai Khan.

The British Empire was truely the largest ever seen, and has a History of close to 3 centuries. Being that this empire truely encompassed the entire plante I would say that it would rank a notch higher in my book.

Answer 4

Well, the Roman Empire was quite successful for a long period. Still, I would say the most successful in history was the Islamic Empire. The extent was vast, larger than the Roman Empire at its height. But what's even more striking is that it is culturally the most successful empire of all time, by far. Wherever it went, it simply plowed under the prior culture and replaced it with Islam. This is normally a recipe for catastrophic failure and provoking massive rebellion. But the Islamic Empire made Islam dominant everywhere it went, and with Spain as almost the sole exception, the lands it conquered became permanently Moslem.

Answer 5

The Roman Empire is truly the most influential in history, for many reasons. Among them are:

1. Urbanization: Introduction of the city based on a template that could be applied anywhere in the empire. The Roman city was the first systemic organization of infrastructure and institutions at a scale unprecedented.

2. Christianity: The availability of good well protected roads and sea lanes allowed the rapid spread of the religion. Education produced a literate upper class that could read the scriptures and disseminate them.

3. The Code of Augustus. A rational system of laws and regulations, and a system of courts and magistrates to apply them consistently throughout the empire.

4. Communication and transportation: advancements in cartography, an alphabet, postal system and roads that facilitated trade and colonization of the provinces.

At its height in 117 AD, the empire had a population of over 88 million within 5 million sq. km. See map:

http://www.biblestudy.org/maps/roman-empire.gif

Today, the European Union occupies only 4.3 million sq. km.

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Answer 6

The British Empire spanned the globe and encompassed millions of people.
The Sun Never Set on the British Empire.
53 Independent nations.
2 billion people.

Answer 7

The mongols conquered more land, had more people under them, and lasted longer. Also, the romans didn't conquer all of europe. Modern day germany and scandinava were never under roman yoke, at least the time you are reffering to.

Answer 8

They didn't have a thousand year empire.

Answer 9

nope the british were.