(06-04-2014 03:23 PM)ClairtonPanther Wrote:  

(06-04-2014 03:18 PM)john01992 Wrote:  

(06-04-2014 03:14 PM)ClairtonPanther Wrote:  1 Roman Empire
2 Persian Empire
3 Egypt
4 Various Chinese Dynasties
5 Babylon Empire
6 Assyrian Empire
7 Mongols
8 UK Empire 1600-mid 1900's
9 US (Still young and will move up the list over more time)
10 India

how much time will the US have to wait to move up?

personally I look it like an exponential ranking system of the years.

50 years of domination in the modern era is like 500 years of domination in the BCs

I don't know. To me the US been a superpower since WW1 (perhaps a few decades earlier), therefore we've only been a superpower for a little over 100 years. We've got a ways to go to pass the UK and further up the list.

i trace US being a superpower to the 1870s. Europe was just too naive to realize it until 1942