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It’s a good question. I suppose it’s tempting to say that things just happen faster now due to things like communication technology and transportation technology.

I would question the 400 year period for the collapse of Rome actually. Where is the high water mark? The Teutonberg forest battle? Rome may have stopped expanding but it didn’t look like a collapsing empire until maybe 300. So on that measure the collapse period was similar to the Yookay Empire.

And it’s arguably cherry picking with hindsight to just measure to the end of the Western empire rather than the Eastern 700 years later.

With equal distance of years, the American Empire may be seen as the equivalent of the Byzantine Empire, with respect to the British Empire/ Western Empire. That is, as a surviving and prospering extension of the original Empire.

But yes interesting question. My guess would be: quicker rather than slower.

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