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SplishSplash wrote:

busetibi wrote:is that a fact?
try this :

by 1921, the British Empire held sway over a population of about 470–570 million people — roughly a quarter of the world's population — and covered about 15 million square miles (nearly 36 million square kilometres), roughly 33% of the world's total land area.

And needed America's help to defeat Germany before and after. Go sing "Rule Britannia", I don't care and neither did Europe back then.

Edit: Being a superpower to a bunch of native tribes isn't that hard, you know. It's when you go against your equals when it counts.

SplishSplash wrote:yes

busetibi wrote: wtf are you smoking?
you sir, with all due respects, are a fucking idiot.
thanks for playing.

Ryoki wrote:

SplishSplash wrote:yes

Then i am forced to call you an idiot.

SplishSplash wrote:Edit: Being a superpower to a bunch of native tribes isn't that hard, you know. It's when you go against your equals when it counts.

Ryoki wrote: If tomorrow i think of a new word to discribe an unknown tropical disease that i discovered today, would you argue that people with the exact same symptoms did not suffer from it three days ago?

SplishSplash wrote:yes

Survivor wrote: Yes a superpower and all should be able to overthrow iraq without a problem and eliminate all resistance. Or doesn't it count because it's not a convential army :icon28:

[xeno]Julios wrote: Spish, trying to surf on the semantic sea, sadly splashes.

this makes a curious sound, and the whales call it SPLISHSPLASH.

SplishSplash wrote:

Survivor wrote: Yes a superpower and all should be able to overthrow iraq without a problem and eliminate all resistance. Or doesn't it count because it's not a convential army :icon28:

Think again.

Ryoki wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superpower

Although the term superpower is a recent one, the word has been retrospectively applied by some to previous military powers. The oldest superpower on the planet was the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire covered most of Europe, North Africa, and Asia Minor. The Persian Empire once controlled all of Asia Minor, Egypt and parts of India. The short-lived Greek/Macedonian empire under Alexander the Great became one after replacing Persian power. During its Siglo de Oro, the Spanish Empire had possession of Italy, parts of Germany, Portugal, the Netherlands, and many colonies in the Americas, Africa, and Asia. At its peak in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the British Empire covered a quarter of the Earth's land area and comprised a third of its population. It was said "The sun never sets on the British Empire."

Not as clearly in this category are nations that gained unquestioned hegemony over a large neighborhood at a time before global travel was a reality. Nations such as ancient Egypt, the Aztec Empire, the Persian Empire, and China could in one sense be considered early superpowers, at least for a time when an understanding of what is meant by "the world" was much smaller than it is today.

The first modern "superpowers" -- although they were not known by that term and are more commonly labeled as "Great Powers" -- arose with the beginning of nation-states which were capable of organizing and enlisting commerce, politics, and standing armies and navies to subdue or control other nation-states and less civilized areas. The Dutch were the first nation-state to do so, followed by the Spanish empire and British empire.

The term "superpower" is most commonly reserved for the post World War II period to reflect the bipolar political division of the world and advances in technology that allowed countries to instantly communicate throughout the world and project tremendous power on a truly global scale.

Ryoki wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superpower

Grudge wrote:
Discussion over, fuck off ShitSplash.

SplishSplash wrote:

busetibi wrote: wtf are you smoking?
you sir, with all due respects, are a fucking idiot.
thanks for playing.

rofl

sorry sir didn't mean to hurt your commonwealth pride

Survivor wrote: I do, that's why I disagree with your view. With your view you could also say the soviet union never was a superpower since they didn't hold up untill now.

SplishSplash wrote:

Grudge wrote:
Discussion over, fuck off ShitSplash.

Did you even read past the first sentence? You should have.

SplishSplash wrote:

Survivor wrote: I do, that's why I disagree with your view. With your view you could also say the soviet union never was a superpower since they didn't hold up untill now.

They could turn Iraq into glass if they wanted to. They don't because of humanitarian reasons.

busetibi wrote: commonwealth pride?
wtf is that?
im not even english
you seem to be grabbing at straws,you whole argument is being shot down in flames and all you can do is answer with pathetic (supposedly) insults
time to get a new act, youre failing miserably here

SplishSplash wrote:

Ryoki wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superpower

Yeah. Notice how their description begins with "At the end of WW2"?

Ryoki wrote:Oh, you mean above the bits ´Superpowers in history´and ´Criteria defining the status of a superpower´?

Yes, i did notice that.

SplishSplash wrote: And Grudge just proved me right in an hilarious attempt to prove me wrong.


I don't know about you guys, but to everyone who can read it looks like I'm winning this one quite easily. Even Grudge acknowledged that by resorting to a lame off-topic comeback.