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Didn't that empire last over a thousand years? Why is it ozymandian? More than we can say for the current one


Don’t forget the Byzantine Empire was the continuation of the Roman Empire.

I’m not sure if they still SPQR’d though.

Update: it appears to have fallen out of favour by 300

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1jdrpz/did_t...

From a comment from a 12 year old Reddit post, 12 years being 0.5% of the span of the Roman Empire.


Pre-dictatorship, the Roman Republic was one of history's longest-lasting democracies:

https://www.broadstreet.blog/p/the-democratic-institutions-o...




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