OT:US don't qualify for EU membership, don't spank children, WW2 history.

[Loser]

Originally posted by oleg:
Roman Empire should give plenty examples, I think. It was the most impressive Empire building in human history IMO.

Quite possibly the most impressive, especially because unlike Genghis Kahn's it Lasted many generations, but it wasn't one man. Genghis didn't get his continent spanning empire until late in his life (he was over fifty, I believe), but it was all under the period of his own rule.

I'm not going to knock the Roman Empire for Empire building, but it wasn't anything that could be mistaken for the work of an single individual. Rather it would have been the work of a system that developed and exploited quite a number exceptional individuals.

Now if we could just model the development and exploitation of exceptional individuals in SE IV...

[ August 21, 2003, 20:23: Message edited by: Loser ]