----- Original Message ----- From: "Alberto Monteiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 11:32 AM Subject: Re: The Axis of Weasel
> Dan Minette wrote: > > > >> One, it will eventually break apart into hundreds of > >> factions competing among themselves > > > > Alberto, I realize that US history is not critical > > for Brazil, so I thought I let you know that question > > has been settled for the US 138 years ago. > > > Oh, Humanity has been playing with states for more > than 5,000 years. 138 years is a _very_ significant > number. Is there a statistician in the house? :-) No, I'm arguing that representative governments in countries with high mobility have different mechanisms for handling differences than centrally controlled empires. Speaking of which IIRC, while the Roman empire did break into two adminstrative units, they didn't war, but one just let the other fade away first. So, your example of breaking into 100 parts didn't work for that empire. It didn't work for China. Just which unipolar power did break up into >20 pieces? Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
