and yet 40 years after that war ended we're still talking about the US being the biggest empire.
also I didn't type that last post out as some back and forth Murica pride bullshit, I typed it out because you guys were comparing a bunch of people in togas with swords and spears that had to walk for months to the battlefield to the most technologically advanced, most equipped military in Earth's history who also happens to have strategic alliances with all of the other "civilized" super powers of the world.
Rome didn't have the UK, Australia, Japan, Canada, Germany, New Zealand etc. willing to also send Brigades of troops to fight along side them in conflict and to back their play with every major political and economical issue in the world.