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The Strongest Super power in History
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Phat Elvis said:Does Microsoft count?
i think Google would beat Microsoft actually, consider the amount of info they have.
PlaceofDis said:
Yeah I can't agree with that one.. more than half a million people died in the American Civil War. That's pretty large scale.
yellow said:
What about North American wars?
Can't forget about the Native Americans. Large scale war against an entire culture over hundreds of years.
Unfortunately we can't even attempt to quantify that since there was no written history that details the amount of dead.
The strongest super power the world has ever known to this very day: Italy.
My evidence:
1. Everybody loves Italian food.
2. Italy won the World Cup.
3. Gucci, Armani, Prada - you think that they are just designers? I think not.
4. Italians have nice hair.
5. I am Italian-American.
6. 67.3% of the world population believe that Italy is the world's greatest super power of all time.
7. 65.3% of Mac users enjoy pizza.
8. 58.2% of the American population believe that Italy has weapons of mass destruction and is harboring top members of Al-Qaeda.
9. Italian is very similar to Spanish. This could explain the immigrant worker problem we are having in this country. Those aren't Mexicans, they are Italian spys.
10. The Italian landmass is in the shape of a large feminine heeled boot. No one trusts heeled boots.
My evidence:
1. Everybody loves Italian food.
2. Italy won the World Cup.
3. Gucci, Armani, Prada - you think that they are just designers? I think not.
4. Italians have nice hair.
5. I am Italian-American.
6. 67.3% of the world population believe that Italy is the world's greatest super power of all time.
7. 65.3% of Mac users enjoy pizza.
8. 58.2% of the American population believe that Italy has weapons of mass destruction and is harboring top members of Al-Qaeda.
9. Italian is very similar to Spanish. This could explain the immigrant worker problem we are having in this country. Those aren't Mexicans, they are Italian spys.
10. The Italian landmass is in the shape of a large feminine heeled boot. No one trusts heeled boots.
_Matt said:The strongest super power the world has ever known to this very day: Italy.
My evidence:
1. Everybody loves Italian food.
2. Italy won the World Cup.
3. Gucci, Armani, Prada - you think that they are just designers? I think not.
4. Italians have nice hair.
5. I am Italian-American.
6. 67.3% of the world population believe that Italy is the world's greatest super power of all time.
7. 65.3% of Mac users enjoy pizza.
8. 58.2% of the American population believe that Italy has weapons of mass destruction and is harboring top members of Al-Qaeda.
9. Italian is very similar to Spanish. This could explain the immigrant worker problem we are having in this country. Those aren't Mexicans, they are Italian spys.
10. The Italian landmass is in the shape of a large feminine heeled boot. No one trusts heeled boots.
Evidence Italy can NEVER be considered a super power
1. Guys riding around on Scooters (and thinking its ok)
playaj82 said:
Excuse me sir, but I believe that the technical term for these "scooters" you mention is Vespa.
Please visit their website.
http://www.vespa.com/
playaj82 said:
Except I'd say that guys comfortable enough in their virility to ride around on Piaggios and eat icecream are pretty super to me
I'd go for Rome since another important aspect of Empire is longevity. Rome was founded in 753BC and didn't fall until the 4th century - that's over a millennium with a single super power. That's astonishing... particularly when you see how much of their building/engineering still exist. The Pantheon in Rome makes your jaw hit the floor when you first see it.
The engineering feats of the aqueducts alone are astonishing particularly when you realise that the only reason Naples/Pompeii etc existed was the 60 mile long Aqueduct Augusta brought water to a barren area.
Rome was a lot like the current Western nations - taking ideas from many others and developing them further with consumerism feeding the Empire's economy. They traded with the entire world including China and controlled much of Europe, a fair chunk of Northern Africa and a large portion of Asia.
As for language, Latin still survives in the Romance languages which are evolution of it. Who knows, if instantaneous communication had existed back then, Latin might not have diverged so much and might still have been the dominant language. I firmly believe that if not for television/movie/internet, British and American English would have drifted so far apart they really would be different languages as opposed to just having amusing pronunciations and odd words.
11. Italian women are (per capita) the hottest on the planet..._Matt said:The strongest super power the world has ever known to this very day: Italy.
My evidence:
1. Everybody loves Italian food.
2. Italy won the World Cup.
3. Gucci, Armani, Prada - you think that they are just designers? I think not.
4. Italians have nice hair.
5. I am Italian-American.
6. 67.3% of the world population believe that Italy is the world's greatest super power of all time.
7. 65.3% of Mac users enjoy pizza.
8. 58.2% of the American population believe that Italy has weapons of mass destruction and is harboring top members of Al-Qaeda.
9. Italian is very similar to Spanish. This could explain the immigrant worker problem we are having in this country. Those aren't Mexicans, they are Italian spys.
10. The Italian landmass is in the shape of a large feminine heeled boot. No one trusts heeled boots.
yellow said:
i suppose i should have been a bit more clearer. i meant not in terms of casualties, but area and the amount in which are actual property and livelihood has been destroyed, and yes a vast majority of the country at the time was physically damaged but there were resources elsewere to move on too at the same time.
Indeed, I have a bad case of lust over Fabio Cannavarodynamicv said:Italian men aren't bad either
Applespider said:
Oh. My. Gawd. Look at that ass.
*drool*
dynamicv said:I'll be back in five
[Jayne]I'll be in my bunk.[/Jayne]
ham_man said:I'd pick the sides with the Delta Force, the Green Berets, the Rangers, the SEALs, the side with the most nukes, the side with the laser guided bombs, the side with the Airborne, the side with the GPS guided bombs, the side with the marines, the side with the F-117, the side with the B-2, the side with the F-22...
I'd actually pick the side that knows how to fight, use their weapons - ie the side with the SAS, the Royal Marines (aka Green Berets
), and gurkhas; and manage to win wars unaided by third parties. But let's not turn this into a political thread.
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