(September 24, 2022 at 11:55 am)Anomalocaris Wrote:(September 24, 2022 at 11:54 am)Jehanne Wrote: Rome was a Republic that turned into an Empire, which, as an Empire pretended to be a Republic. In any case, how many civil wars did Rome fight? How many has the United States fought?
The Roman republic avoided civil war for its first 370 years, about 130 years longer than the United States had existed, much less the 4 score and five the US actually manage open civil war.
United has been turning into an empire as soon as the rival superpower fell leaving the US in hegemonic position. It took Rome 80 year from gaining hegemonic power over Mediterranean world to her first civil war on the path to toppling traditional Republican distributed power structure, and 170 years before the transition to monarchical empire is complete. United States is also bidding fair to both it in less.
Time will tell, I suppose. Here is a list of the Roman civil wars & revolts:
Wikipedia -- List of Roman civil wars and revolts
In terms of per capita loss of life, I think that we have done better. But, again, time will tell.
