>>19511448I say late because they were really quite active near the beginning of the common era. Later China a pyramid for channeling taxes to the emperors to spend frivolously rather than a functional country.
>envy as RussiaNo, that is the 18th-19th century Russian Empire. My list is on the causes of downfall of the respective empires. In the 20th century that was an internal power struggle, also envy.
>A-H isn't prideOh it very much is; the spring of nations and subsequently WWI were a biproduct of their arrogance towards the conquered nations.
>ByzantineGreed is the cause of their isolation, which in turn is the cause of their stagnation. Their borders were chipped away bit by bit, one way it could be interpreted is that they were too afraid to owe outsiders.
