Which country in Europe lived up to the legacy of Rome most?
Which country in Europe lived up to the legacy of Rome most?
The DPRK?
Unironically either Ottomans or Russia.
Huge, aggressive, expansionist, multicultural lasted that way for centuries.
there is no distinct legacy of rome pertaining solely to one people, there are for instance no Byzantines with us here today
you can say whatever you like it really matters not at all, the whole of our culture is in a way colored by the achievements of that ancient state, indeed the whole of it is in a way rome
The French monarchy.
UK
Spain
France under the rule of Napoleon
USSR
Russia desu
Turkey
These.
those are saxons
GERMANY —THE THIRD REICH WAS THIRD ROME, AND INITIATED THE THIRD ROMAN CONTINUUM WHICH IS STILL TRANSCURRING.
France, Spain and Britain at various points in time
Sacrum Imperium Romanum
And you fucking know it.
The what now?
America
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This is the only answer
>Ottomans
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Germany
I would say the Holy Roman Empire
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Sweden
>rough start
>corruption
>civil wars and coup d'etats
>enslaved and raped savages
>slow fall into absolute chaos
Unironically spain
the byzantines
USA
while we are technically in europe, no one is supposed to know
This to be honest
>Holy Roman Empire
>not holy
>not roman
>hardly an empire
"Congratulations, you're the new Roman Emperor!" the Pope says to Charlemagne, pretending to still be part of the Roman Empire
military bases are a helluva drug
What about being the heralds of civilization?
I think Spain fits the bill better.
The Vatican.
Kraut propagandist detected. We're island Slavs.
Ottoman empire falls in that category too.
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