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If humans leave the Amazon forrest alone, it’ll come back in a few hundred years.
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There was a British empire but they didn’t have an emperor either.
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To be fair, wasn’t one of Victoria’s titles “Empress of India”…?
But yeah… an empire is a political configuration, it doesn’t need a literal emperor at its head in the modern era. America is very much an empire.
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I was going to add Victoria’s title, but she was empress of India not Britain.
I’d wager most historical empires didnt have emperors.
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Exactly! In Britain and Ireland, she was just a queen… but of course, just occupying Ireland was enough to make Britain an imperial power…
I can certainly say that’s the case in the modern context… Probably true of the various ancient empires, too?
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We hade both an empire and two emperors…
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Possibly a good sign.
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I think He realized that these protests were hurting people who He really cares: Himself. Besides, the protests didn´t get traction, nobody took over the streets and started rioting begging for him take down democracy.
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