Which modern states do you think that are spiritual successors to EB factions?

[Olaf The Great]

You don't have to have the same government to be a spirtual successor, plus the UK is more of a Republic anyway, the King/Queen is a figurehead that doesn't do anything with it's power and if it did they would get thrown out(finally). If the US is Rome, UK is Greece. I feel that fits more but Rome DID decline and eventually fall 1000 years after the loss of "The Empire" so Britain fits well.

[ARCHIPPOS]

Weeeeeeell the USA would like to think they are actually the modern equivalent of the Roman empire (but the rest of the world knows better heh)...
mmmmmmm, also sooner or later a FYROM guy will pop out and say Makedonia=Skopia...

[Unintended BM]

I think it's pretty clear that the USA is like all the citystates of Ancient Greece, and that Canada is like Macedonia. Canadians speak and write a slightly different dialect, just as Macedonians spoke and wrote similarily to the Ancient Greeks. To most Americans, Canada is a joke, nothing but wilderness and moose. What harm could they possibly do? The Greeks thought of the Macedonians as harmless barbarians. There are more parallels that I can't think of right now. Anyways, once Canada is united under a strong leader, the US, then the world, will be conquered by those crazy canucks.

That's the way I see it.

Other than that, the original post with the map and such made sense. I think Mongolia represents the Saka and the Sarmatians, just because Mongolia is almost completely rural and still has a bunch nomadic people living pretty much the same way they did thousands of years ago.

[ARCHIPPOS]

Canada is an eleytheroi statement about to get raped by an expanding USA faction.And so is Britain , Australia, New Zealand etc. They're all US states (they just don't know it yet) :P

[Ibrahim]

Canada is an eleytheroi statement about to get raped by an expanding USA faction.And so is Britain , Australia, New Zealand etc. They're all US states (they just don't know it yet) :P

according to this fellow, everything outside the US is a 51st state :



WARNING: really crazy talk-may accidentally start trouble here.

[gamegeek2]

In general, there's 5 types of people you don't want to trust: Clergymen, Litigators, Commissioned Salesmen, Politicians, and Military Recruiters

[Cute Wolf]

In general, there's 5 types of people you don't want to trust: Clergymen(1), Litigators(2), Commissioned Salesmen(3), Politicians(4), and Military Recruiters(5)

Owww... we just found a one little rebellious guy who could potentially dangerous to the nation...
1. You are an evil atheist, please atone your sins or go to hell
2. You never value law and order, you are a criminal recidivist
3. You never had emphaty. Salesman is one hardest job to do, and they are the victim of their own trade, much like prostitutes... don't hurt em you unemphatic ignorant monster
4. You never appreciate democracy, hating politicians is a sign that you are an anarchist
5. You are unpatriotic bastard, cowards, and you should works in the mines as your punishment

~ Cute Wolf (I know, I was an annoying politician...)

[Mulceber]

You don't have to have the same government to be a spirtual successor,

No, but it definitely helps.

plus the UK is more of a Republic anyway,

Not really - representative democracy is closer to the Res Publica than parliamentary democracy.

the King/Queen is a figurehead that doesn't do anything with it's power and if it did they would get thrown out(finally). If the US is Rome, UK is Greece. I feel that fits more but Rome DID decline and eventually fall 1000 years after the loss of "The Empire" so Britain fits well.

Agreed - in fact, I'd say that the presence of the figurehead Monarch is similar to the Chief Archon that continued to exist in Athens after the founding of the Democracy, even though he was a quasi-monarchic figure. -M