Tier List of Empires by Prestige (Historically Accurate Names)

Ultimate Prestige: Senatvs Popvlvsqve Romanvs

Otherworldly Prestige: Britannia/British Empire, Achaemenid Empire/First Persian Empire, Han Dynasty, Hellenic League, Athens, Second French Empire/French Colonial Empire

Divine Prestige: First French Empire/Napoleonic France, Carthago, Third Reich/Greater German Reich, Prussia, Pharaohic Aegyptus/Kemet, Lacedaemon/Sparta

Great Prestige: Hispanic Monarchy/Spanish Empire, Empire of Japan, Tang Dynasty, Byzantium/Eastern Roman Empire, Ottoman Empire

Meh Prestige: Portugese Empire, Mughal Empire, Russian Empire

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"Some things are believed because they are demonstrably true. But many other things are believed simply because they have been asserted repeatedly—and repetition has been accepted as a substitute for evidence." - Thomas Sowell
 

Nazis didn't even last 15 years as an "empire" and are listed on here... Lol. Ofc no mention of the African Malian empire. Just come out and state you're a Neo-Nazi troll pls. 

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Russian empire took Siberia and their successors still own it, keeping the country afloat whenever difficulties arise. 

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Carthage deserves to be up another tier. They had and empire that was the most prosperous of all antiquity and spanned from North Africa to present day Spain and Sicily. It took the Romans three tries over the course of a century

It spanned an extremely small portion of North Africa, some of southern Spain, and some of southwestern Sicily.  But not all at the same time.  It wasn't even close to the most prosperous empire of antiquity, it was a wealthy metropolis, but hardly the only one in the Western Mediterranean.  It's main rival for much of it's history, Syracuse, was just as large and just as prosperous.  Even mid-Republican Rome was on par with the size and influence Carthage wielded, which was as a pre-eminent regional power but not a superpower in the sense that Rome would become, or Persia or Egypt or Macedon were.  

for Cato's call for Carthago deranda est to be realized.

That's because for the last 50 years of it, Rome consciously avoided attacking and Carthage actively avoided provoking Rome.  From the beginning of the First Punic War to the end of the Second (which was the effective end of Carthage as an independent political entity) only 60 or so years passed.  A far cry from "over a century"

 

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