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Originally Posted by Blademaster
Wrong. The Golden Khanate. The Ottoman Turks. The Mughals.
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The Golden Khanate, possibly. Not the other two. The Ottomons could be traced back to the Turks under Alp Arsalan, who crushed the Romans at Mazikert in 1074. And modern day Turks (or Ottomons for that matter) are merely the Turkified residents of Anatolia (and muslim Greeks).
The Mughals are a different matter altogerther, they claimed decent from Taimur trues, who himself claimed decent from Genghis Khan, which was a pretty dubious proposition. And people like Shah jahen and the Aurengzeb were more Indian (or possibly Afghan) both culturally, ethinically and biologically than they ever were Central Asian.
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Originally Posted by gunnut
How long did the Roman Empire last? Some say the American Empire today is the distant relative of Roman Empire. Where are the Mongols?
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Depends on what you define by "Roman" and "Empire" and "last".
Looking at it calmly, I would say that the Roman Empire lasted until 698 AD, the all of Carthage to the Arabs, that was the last vestige of the old Latin Empire that Constantinople had.
Of Course the fall of Constantinople in 1453 can also be said to have the end of the Empire.