Favorite empire of their time period

>Ancient
Sumerian

>Classical
Greece

>Medieval
Abbasid Caliphate

>Early Modern
Dutch Empire

>Late Modern
British Empire

>Ancient
Hittite

>Classical
Rome

>Medieval
Holy Roman Empire

>Early Modern
Holy Roman Empire

>Late Modern
Italian Empire

>Ancient
Minoan
>Classical
Greece
>Medieval
Japanese
>Early modern
Dutch
>Late modern
Japanese

>Soviet Union
>Empire.

Spanish Empire.

>Expansive and large territory
>Multiple ethnicities
>Ruled by a single man

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>Holy Roman Empire
>Empire.

yeah OP's image is shit. it's missing the French, Dutch, Japanese, Russian etc empire, yet supposedly the generic Germanic confederacy and fucking Vikings are empires

How come when you get to modern its suddenly mercantilism is best

> Ancient
Assyrian
> Classical
Achaemenid Persia
> Hellenistic
Carthage
> Late Antiquity/Early Medieval/High Medieval
(Eastern) Roman Empire
> Late medieval
Italian city-states.
> Early modern
Dutch Empire
>Late Modern
French Empire

>>Ruled by a single man

Who wasn't an emperor. Not an empire.

>Ancient
Mycenaean Greece, not really an empire though.

>Classical
Roman Empire

>Medieval
Carolingian Empire

>Early Modern
First French Empire

>Late Modern
Second French Empire

>ancient
Shang China

>Classical
Rome

>medieval
Mongols

>early modern
Ottoman Empire

>late modern
Napoleon

>Ancient
Achaemenid

>Classical
Roman

>Medieval
Eastern Roman

>Early Modern
Mughal

>Late Modern
Japanese

>Ancient
Babylonian
>Classical
Carthage
>Medival
Umayyad
>Early Modern
Ottoman
>Late Modern
German

>Ancient
Zhou

>Classical
Qin

>Medieval
Ming

>Early Modern
HRE

>Late Modern
Qing

>Ancient
New Kingdom Egypt

>Classical
Roman Republic/Empire

>Medieval
Umayyad Caliphate

>Early Modern
Mughal Empire

>Late Modern
British Empire

>1207885
>Ancient
Assyrian
>Classical
Roman Empire
>Medieval
Byzantine Empire
>Early Modern
Dutch Empire
>Late Modern
German Empire

Where is the USA?

Ancient: Natufians (not an empire but first sedentary known peoples)
Classical: Rome
Medieval: Japan
Early Modern: Ottoman Empire
Late Modern: Britain

>Ancient
Egypt
>Classical
Rome
>Medieval
Venice
>Early modern
HRE
>Late modern
British

one of these is not like the others

>Ancient
HRE
>Classical
HRE
>Medieval
HRE
>Early Modern
HRE
>Late Modern
HRE

>Ancient
Assyrians
>Classical
The Hellenes
>Medieval
Tang
>Early Modern
Dutch
>Late Modern
Napoleonic France

Then most empires wouldn't be empires. Empire no longer defines a country ruled by an emperor.

>Ancient
Minoan (though not an empire)

>Classical
Teotihuacan

>Medieval
Mongol

>Early Modern
Mughal

>Late Modern
British Empire

>Ancient
Egypt
>Classical
Greece
>Medieval
Eastern Roman Empire
>Early Modern
HRE
>Late Modern
German Empire

>Ancient
Babylon

>Classic
Rome

>Medieval
Sasanids

>Early Modern
Safavids

>Late Modern
Russian Empire

Also,
>asks for two ancients and two moderns
>only one medieval

The mayan empire thing is a meme too. They were never an unified state, not even during their golden age, even less for so many centuries.

I know, fucking manchushit steppeniggers.

>Ancient
Zhou

>Classical
Han

>Medieval
Tang

>Early Modern
Ming

>Late Modern

Meiji

>Ancient
Persians

>Classical
Rome

>Medieval
Duchy Burgundy

> Early Modern
French/Dutch

>Modern
Probably Brits

ETERNAL

>Ancient
Minoan Thalassocracy

>Classical
Alexander's clay

>Medieval
Tang Dynasty

>Early Modern
Mughal Empire

>Late Modern
American hegemony

>Ancient
Mycenaean/Minoan

>Classical
Rome

>Medieval
V E N I C E
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N
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>Early Modern
V E N I C E
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N
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C
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>Late Modern
British Empire

>Ancient
Assyrian

>Classical
Rome

>Medieval
Venice

>Early Modern
Dutch Empire

>Late Modern
>British Empire

All the empires I like are medieval or early modern so fuck you, just gonna list em anyways

Aztec
Khmer
Mughal
Majapahit
Ottoman

This, they were basically just a bunch of city states that shared a culture/language/reliigon, but were never unified or all allied.

>Ancient
Greece
>Classical
Roman empire
>Medieval
Venice
>Early modern
Prussia
>Late modern
None
Maybe the Brits

>Ancient
Greece
>Classical
Roman empire
>Medieval
Holy Roman Empire
>Early modern
Prussia
>Late modern
German Empire

>Ancient
Minoans
>Classical
Maya
>Medieval
Khmer
>Early modern
Edo Japan
>Late modern
US