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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 7402183, member: 81887&quot;]Yes, this, a thousand times. To be fair, the dates for Persia are good for the Achaemenids, though it&#039;s not like no other great Persian empire would ever exist (*cough* Sasanians *cough*).&nbsp; The cutoff of 880 for the &quot;Arab Empire&quot; is about when the Abbasid Caliphate started to fracture, so there was a loss of political unity and non-Arab-ruled Muslim states emerged, but the Islamic world as a whole was still going strong, with a great deal of cultural unity even if it wasn&#039;t all under one dude any more.&nbsp; The start date for Spain of 1500 is about right (the Reconquista and Columbus both happening in 1492), but 1750 is dodgy- the Spanish empire really collapsed with the Latin American wars of Independence in the 1820s-30s, which adds nearly 100 years.&nbsp; The problems with the dates for &quot;Greece&quot; and the Roman Republic and Empire should be obvious to most readers here.&nbsp; Probably the other dates could be picked apart by someone who knows more.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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