@Stahesh i was watching asterix and obelix yesterday and obviously there was Caesar and the Romans and i was thinking that if germans would not, literally, copy "the empire" like Romans tried to build, they might have not failed. it seems that humans simply cannot function in these large bodies of government due to inherent differences in culture, genetics, customs, language and whatnot. on a much lower level that makes any such venture doomed to fail sooner or later. more diverse = shorter life