The Roman Empire and the United States

The united states kicked out a monarch, founded a republic wildly skewed in favor of a rich aristocracy and dealt with violent upheavals as the lower social classes attempted to capture some power for themselves. The roman empire became the dominant state in the mediterranean around 200 b c, and remained as such in one form or another until the fall of constantinople in the 14 fifties. America, by contrast, was a pretty decent regional power for about a century, a pretty major world power for about 75 years after that,. and has been living with the kind of unipolar prestige rome enjoy for centuries for about the last 20 years. We should all hope to have best friends as