freagle ,

Nice whataboutism. Yes, you can read Wikipedia, but historical analysis isn’t about what names are listed under a topic in an encyclopedia. The difference between those empires and the European empires I listed are as follows:

A) the European empires subjugated 80% of the world’s population.
B) the European empires invented the concepts of racialized capitalism that dominate the entire world today.
C) the European empires still exist.
D) where the European empires no longer exist in direct occupation, the relationships of subjugation and extraction still exist in the exact same places. E) the European empires have killed orders of magnitude more people than all other empires combined and the killing is continuous to this day.
F) the genocide of the European empires is still happening to this day.
G) all anti-imperialist struggles happening around the world today and for the last 50 years have been struggles against the European empires.

None of these can be said about other empires. So quit your whataboutism. Just because Gengis Khan existed doesn’t make the currently ongoing 600-year European imperial project any better.

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