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Originally Posted by pvicente
I've read your timeline and there is something that seems odd to me. If the U.S. is the modern equivalent of Rome, then what is the ancient equivalent of the U.K. ? That's a country that the U.S. interacted with a lot, and which influenced it's history so where's the Roman equivalent?
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This is a good question. As I have noted there are British parallels, for example the 2147 year gap between the Cromwell Republic in 1640 and the Roman expulsion of the early kings. And of course the UK and USA were close allies in WW2 and against Iraq, and the British imperial expansion of the nineteenth century is part of a broader world process together with the American frontier. I noted earlier that we should expect to see parallels between leading entities ranging from world to individual scale. Other leading players also exhibit strong parallels - such as Napoleon in France and Alexander in Ancient Greece. In so far as the UK has been a world leader we should expect to find parallels between its major events and those of the leading powers of the ancient world.