Rise and fall of Empires

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[DonutKing]

Here's a cool site showing 5000 years of history in 90 seconds

http://www.mapsofwar.com/images/EMPIRE17.swf

Some other interesting things on the site as well like maps for religion and democracy
http://www.mapsofwar.com/maps.html

[Chalice]

WOW, in that perspective the Mongols really had a go of it didn't they?

Some of those countries were taken and retaken every 100 years or so it seemed..poor fucks

[-NeOpHyTe-]

thats pretty cool donut - where the hell do you find this stuff??

i wonder if the seppos thought of this when they invaded iraq and tried to turn that country to a democracy - its been a hot bed for EVER and will probably remain so for a long time

makes you glad that you were born on a friggin big island 

[bageled]

Nice find Donut.
The macedonian empire is amazing when you consider it was one army that conquered all of that in a decade or so. Talk about KDR's, check out the Battle of Gaugamela, the Macedonians took on an army twice their size, on ground their enemy had chosen and prepared for the battle. The persions used scythed chariots, so they chose a flat plain that they removed all large rocks from to maximise their chaiots effectiveness. The macedonians, had just short of 50,000 men, the persians had almost 100,000. Macedonian casualties were around 3,000, persian casualties around 40,000. Alexander the great is an interesting character to study, definetly laid some of the foundations for our modern society. The guy was taught battle by Phillip of Macedon who was a military genius in his own right. Phillip was teh first general to use mixed forces that included cavalry, in a time when phalanxes were the accepted norm. At 13 Alexander was put under the tutelage of one of the greatest philosphers of all time, Aristotle.
I thought the French and British empires were notable absences.

[KARNAGE]

them persians were pretty big, couldn't take over Greece/Sparta though love 300

[DonutKing]

thats pretty cool donut - where the hell do you find this stuff??

Saw it on another forum

I thought the French and British empires were notable absences.

I think that's because it predominantly focuses on the Middle East and the British empire spanned the globe, while the French empire was mainly in Western Europe. It does mention 'European Colonialism' around 1912 which probably covers the Poms at their empire's peak.

[Jstar]

Yea the Europeon colonialism was huge. So yea that was the basically that sorta stuff.