On Apr 19, 2009, at 4:36 PM, Chris Doss wrote:
>
> Alexander the Great's empire and the Mongol Empire fell pretty damn
> fast.
>
Both the Mongol empire (in China) and Alexander's Macedonian empire
(in the form of the kingdoms of the diodachi) lasted centuries. The
British Empire lasted but a century (from Victoria to Attlee).
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos