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Yaqui uprising Caste War of Yucatán In the US, westward settlement decreased the population of states like Virginia. Similarly there would be less northward migration into Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, etc. from the Mexico Valley and surrounding area.

The number of people who think Spain is in Central or South America is very low. It's more likely for people to assume that Spaniards might look like Latin Americans, but that is not that crazy of a misconception, since Andalusia is the famous part of Spain and European Spaniards are very...

There are definitely ignorant people out there. Also, don't tell me this was in Arizona. But it was probably Arizona. Of course, the US was absolutely terrible to Native Americans as I said before. My point was that the Spanish Empire isn't really an improvement because they were committing...

There are so many misconceptions here that I have to wonder if you get your information about Americans exclusively from 4chan or something. While it is true that some Americans assume Spaniards look like Latin Americans, it's simply because they haven't interacted with Spaniards or looked into...

Slavs replaced Avars, Pannonia latins and Dacians. Turks replaced both Greeks and western Armenians. It has happened a couple of times although you are right that it is rare.

Maximinus Thrax was a Thracian like Justinian, while Severus Alexander was a Syrian.

Well that is ridiculous because the Roman Emperor's legitimacy was entirely derived on being a Roman.

So if Greek knowing and preferring Latin decides to institute Greek for expediency, that instantly makes him non-Roman?

So if Justinian's empire was Roman, then Greeks and Greek speakers can be Romans?

If you accept Justinian as Roman, then his empire must be Roman. Well, the core of that empire happened to remain the core of the Byzantine empire until the 1200s. Religiously, Christianity must be Roman too, because Justinian was the "Protector of all Christians".

If he delegates more to Belisarius and Narses, RIP Persia. If he tells Belisarius to come back at random arbitrary points instead of pressing the advantage, RIP East Rome.

So when several European countries changed from Latin to vernacular after thirty years of apocalyptic war (Thirty Years War), that terminated the state?

Not only that, but Persia proper was actually strikingly non urbanized for most of its imperial existence. Mesopotamia was definitely the center.

Hmm, the wealthiest <5% learning a language, and that becoming the new language of the state... Sounds like every country on Earth after industrialization standardized dialects. In some cases the dialects were separate languages.

True, I'm just saying there are also cultural commonalities during that time.

The Romans were obsessed with Greece, and thought all non-Romans were barbarians, and believed the emperor to be a divine ruler, from 27 BC to 1453 AD. That seems pretty constant. If the Romans were still Romans when they decided people from outside the city were Romans (e.g. after Caracalla)...

But Hannibal almost won. I don't think that's a good example, Pyrrhus would be better.