(06-04-2014 03:42 PM)Bull_In_Exile Wrote:  

(06-04-2014 03:37 PM)john01992 Wrote:  

(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

Thats pretty fair... Our power and wealth was being put into the west so it was not apparent..

But the Navies of the United States and Confederate States made every war ship on the seas pretty suspect in the 1860's.