The one thing I don’t understand in my history textbook is this specific concept. For example, my history book will talk about the Roman Empire. Cool. Then a buncha stuff happens in Europe, Italy, France, UK etc. Cool, but are they just regions part of the empire?
Let’s fast forward to American independence. I think by now the Roman Empire fell or something? I don’t remember. America was a colony, so was Britain already an autonomous state by then? Then we get American independence. After this, we still have the Ottoman Empire that ends up falling after WWI I believe. When does that region split into different countries?
But when did they just become countries? How does that happen? And why settle for a country rather than an empire or vice versa?
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>For example, my history book will talk about the Roman Empire. Cool. Then a buncha stuff happens in Europe, Italy, France, **UK** etc. Cool, but are they just regions part of the empire?
Bruh, you’re, uh…missing a bit here.
The (Western) Roman Empire withdrew from Britain around 400 AD, and had fallen apart by 500 AD.
The UK didn’t really exist until 1707, and the two Kingdoms it was built from (England and Scotland) were basically founded in 1066 and 843 AD, respectively, both hundreds of years after the Romans were gone.
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