Soooooooo, i'll express my position without even going anonymous because let's just be honest : Basically i think the worst Empire is the one of White people, since the begining while some countries had a really strong cultural and religious convictions and were really cultivated on their own, white people went like, let's go "explore" the world lalalalalal~ oh it's pretty her let me rape your women, kill your children and steal everything...
a few moment later...
Oups the world opinion is really a thing we need to leave but before let's just destroy everything and install an ambiance of totally not stable barbaric terrorist climate and give our people power in those places coz we want to come back later to suck their blood again and pretend we fight for justice ! and we obviously need to control peoples brain by using media manipulation etc... i could write a book on how much they're the worst but let's just stop here i feel like it's enough to get insulted in a few minutes ;)
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The Roman empire is by far the most evil and the Greek basically Europe in general throughout human history is evil. The worst thing they have ever done is crucify jesus then turn around in one day after 300 years and claim to be christian but still live as paegans as they raped, invaded lands, raped childred, enslave people, slaughtered people and also create social structures like gender, race and eventually rule the world.
No there was definitely worse but I do think its bullshit for us British to ignore what the Empire really was and its crimes against humanity while criticising America.
No. I think the worst Empire was the Mongol, with Genghis Kahn, or the Ottoman Empire.
The British didn't massacre people the colonized, they killed those who fought back, obviously, but they didn't kill the rest, unlike the Mongols who killed everyone.
I see the British Empire as something to admire.
The empire did very inhumane and evil things that's for sure such as the opium trade etc, but I think we're far from the most evil Empire.
But still...
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Historically, most empires have been pretty ruthless, and frankly, most of them were also wiping out pretty horrific warlords when they expanded.
Were the British particularly genocidal? I would have to argue hell no, they were probably below average, as far as empires go.
The British empire wasn't large because they were more or less evil, the British empire was large because they were an emergent power at a time when european technology allowed a global empire. Give Romans better technology, they'd have had a global empire as well.
Even among modern empires, would you really say the British were worse in how they colonized then the Spanish or other european powers? Would you say they were worse than Imperial Japan?In terms of empire and colonialism the British Empire was the most humane of the lot.
Much of their empire was mostly commerce and mercantile driven, with that they brought to many parts of the world an equitable justice system, an efficient civil service and infrastructure, many of it in use till today.Well my answer is here :Well of course I didn't live in this era lol , but it was a pretty shitty empire they TOOK our country resources and stole like billions from the country and corrupted the soil and it made out plotical system confused between french and British men , great britian occupied egypt 99 years of he'll it was from the worst empire that occupied egypt , my true opinion
This is what conquering nations do, history of the world isn't people making friends, it was the way and they were good at it. It's not like any other european or empirial state would do something too differently.
Romans were not less vicious, or greek colonies.
Did you ever hear of Cenghiz Khan? Who conquered the world from China to modern day Hungary? Killed, burned, destroyed whoever stood against his path and built the largest empire the world has ever seen?No, it was not. Actually, it was one of the most humane and progressive empires in history. Was it perfect? No, of course not, but there haven't been any empires that were better. Let's put it that way round.
no, the Spanish was, and the germans.
though it's because you're not very smart, and pick on th British Empire since it was the biggest and still most known European colonial project.
Read on the Herero Genocide, apartheid in Congo, and King Leopold's Congo if you think the Briitsh Empire was evil... lol.Not even close to the worst Empire, in fact it's probably one of the best that ever existed. People don;t seem to realize just how nasty most of human history is, by comparison the British were Humanitarians, hell they ended slavery for fuck sake.
Yet to be seen whether America tops the table with all the trouble they have stirred up in the middle east... They continue to poke their nose into everyone elses conflicts and only make matters worse in most cases. Viz Vietnam...
No I would say it would be the Belgians for their actions in the congo
In my opinion, the Britsh Empire is the most evil Empire in the world. The Nazis and Mao Zedong are babies when compared to the crimes of the British. The Nazis had only killed 16M-18M people and Mao Zedong had only killed 30M people, while the Britsh had killed over 150M people. The difference between the Nazis', Mao Zedong's, and the British's kill count is huge. All this proves that the Britsh Empire is the most evil in the world.
Clearly you don't know anything about the Soviet Union, China, Germany, Aztecs, Mongols, Celts... the list of "more evil" civilizations is fairly long
Maybe not the most evil (at least they didn't annihilate entire cultures?), but certainly the most xenophobic.
I think that Spain is the most racist country and treated every place they conquered badly, they even split the people they colonized based on skin color and Spain created the concept of race
They are the worse in my opinion
My history teacher told me they would beat the slaves if they did not Learn Spanish quick enough
Luckily the British and Americans drove them out of America@TheBraveLion would probably want to respond to this.
definitely the mongols. they fucked up the middle east so bad, they made the richest and most sophisticated society get set back 1000 years and fucked up so bad them dudes out there are still shittin' in rocks
It was an Empire. Like all other Empires it had good and bad things. And usually it's the end of it when the bad times come. The British were badasses to achieve so territorial gains. They expanded European civilisation like no one else.
luckily we get a share of evil from everywhere, every once in a while.
the British
the germans
Italians, russians
the states
the terrorists radicalismThey've certainly been underrated, especially by English-speaking people.
just because it was the most talked about at school doesn't make it the worst
No. The English and Spanish together were empire skull bashers...
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