A bit about Romans

The Roman Empire as large as it was was sustained for quite a long time. People all around the the empire flocked to Rome and it's cities. Roads and standardized armies were the technology that allowed the Romans to maintain the empire. It was the army that allowed the empire to begin to degrade when it began to turn on the emperors for pay outs. The Spanish empire was the largest in the world in the early modern era. What had caused it to fall, to lose control of the amount of people and lands under its grip? Part of the reason was attributed to the spending of its money. The silver and gold found in the new world poured out from Spain into the rest of Europe. The defeat of the Spanish Armada is considered a large turning point. The English empire next becomes the most powerful at least that is how we think of it. The rise of the English began well before the fall of the Spanish. In the age of imperialism the English navy, industrial output, and scientific innovation allowed the English global domination. Still there is recognized only three world "peaces" the Pax Romana, Pax Britanica and the Pax Americana. Why? Did the Spanish apparently not achieve the same hegemonic power these other powers had. But this excludes the mongols and the empire sustained by the Khans. Not to mention that the Khans empire laid the foundations for the Ming dynasty, the Russian empire, and the caliph conquered by the Ottomans. It seems to be evident that some bias of history of a western tradition sees these European empires, particularly those with a more "direct" roman heritage with greater prestige.

Bias is not something that is overtly apparent which is why we often don't notice it. Using myself as an example, I wanted to study classical works of the ancient world. So I read Plato and Aristotle, the Stocis and Greek tragedy. Now there is nothing wrong with this but I intended to read the classics of antiquity the history of which is not limited to Europe. What about the

Romance of the Three Kingdoms? Or the Tale of Genji? Or the epic poems of Hindu tradition? Simply put there is much more to the tale of history than what is told in the western tradition. This inchoherent post which presents something but does not do much more is simply a passing thought I had.