this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2025
441 points (96.2% liked)

[Dormant] moved to !historymemes@piefed.social

3512 readers
1 users here now

THIS COMM HAS MOVED

!historymemes@piefed.social

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 45 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately, quite a few guys end up obsessed with that one.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Does it even count as an empire? He had what, 5-6 years occupying parts of Europe?

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 20 points 1 year ago

I would say yes, just a very short-lived one. I'd struggle to come up with a definition of an empire that excluded Nazi Germany short of just arbitrarily imposing a minimum required lifespan. It was definitely a large, powerful, expansionist state that conquered other areas in order to subjugate them for the benefit of a metropole. The Reichskommisariats were basically intended as colonial administrations, not to mention client states like Slovakia

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

parts of Europe

Quite big parts

1000040867

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's the significance of the numbers?

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (2 replies)
[–] uss_entrepreneur@startrek.website 34 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Do science fiction empires count? Because I got imperium of man

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, but unfortunately the credits won't transfer out.

[–] A_cook_not_a_chef@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Unofficial ruling:

Yes, they count.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

I'm glad I got included as the orange speech bubble.

Today is Chicome Coatl (7 Snake) in the Tonalpohualli. Party on nerds.

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Trail@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah. The Persian empire then.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 4 points 1 year ago

Well, one of several

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] burgermeister@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

I was assigned The Scythians late in life

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mughals are pretty cool, Mongol guy is right

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Genghis Kahn did nothing wrong, he did it all for Börte.

load more comments (3 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

i was assigned Ancient Egypt pretty early on, i made my mum read to me things like the process of mummification for bedtime stories

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] CptBread@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Wait... You're only supposed to get one? Do I return the others somehow? Is there any support email or phone I can contact?

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mongol guy's font change has been living in my head all afternoon. Why is it only him? Why does getting the Mongol empire make him start speaking in a Charles-Rennie-Mackintosh-looking font? Like, the artist obviously likes to play it loose with typefaces in the rest of the comic too, but this one guy seems like the centre of the typographical attention and I do not understand the choices made

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

He was so excited about his pick that he BECAME part of the Department

[–] sober_monk@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Does the Byzantine Empire count or do we kind of file that under Rome?

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It has its own Wikipedia page, so it checks out.

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What about the Holy Roman empire of German Nation?

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

1,000,000% counts and is not the same thing as the Roman Empire.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'd argue it is the same thing, it's just that the Roman Empire lasted so long and it was changing the whole time, so it's often necessary to compartmentalise it to a degree

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I think you get to make that call.

[–] reptar@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

That wow looks like it's coming out of that butt

[–] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Only since the last season of Cosmos got me obsessed with the Indus Valley Civilization. I'm over 40.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is arguably more of a Sumer question, but how do you feel about the theory that the Indus Valley Civilisation can be identified as the Meluhha that the early Mesopotamians traded with?

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Plebs are obsessed with empires.

Level up and start being interested in ideologies, mythologies, languages and in larger terms, cultures.

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] fritobugger2017@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I got the Grateful Dead as a freshman in uni and have stuck with that.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Mine just said "the Daevites", and the walls started dripping blood when I opened it. Should I be concerned?

[–] KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Hmmm... "The Galactic Empire" eh? I can work with that.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Excuse me, mine says "Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere" but it's not doing anything. Can I get a new one?

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 9 points 1 year ago

Bah empires! Give me the wild people running free. I want to paint myself blue and run down a hill naked screaming at some Italians.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 8 points 1 year ago

Klingon. For glory!

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago
[–] SassyRamen@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago
[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

I have been obsessed with the fall of empires because that means that this shitty capitalist hellscape won't be around forever.

[–] AmazingAwesomator@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

mordern wars, though mostly world war 2 here. so i guess its american and european modern empires.

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 6 points 1 year ago

Songhai Empire? Hell yessssss!

[–] pachrist@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

If I pick the same country every time I play Civ, can I test out of this course?

[–] dwemthy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I got Dhakaani

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

The Nobunaga and Tokugawa Shogunates.

And I'm not even a weeb. I only like, like, 6 animes. 😌

load more comments (5 replies)
[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Could be worse, could be obsessed with the British Empire.

Those gammon cunts are a bit annoying.

Thank goodness I'm too old to give a incan shit about this.

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

The Seleucid would like to have a word with management.

load more comments
view more: next ›