Contraction / consolidation of world empires

Hello there,

I had a thought earlier today and wanted to check with you if it was vaguely right.

It kinda feels like the world is going through waves of big consolidation of empires followed by the emergence of way smaller structure and then again.

For example in Europe, we had the Greek cities and tribes elsewhere, then we had the emergence of the celts, the carthaginians, the Romans at about a similar time, until only the Romans stayed. The WRE was dislocated and for a few centuries it was completely divided until Charlemagnes, etc...

It feels like right now we're in full consolidation phase with the EU, the African Union, etc... , a sort of gathering of medium players into big ones.


Is that remotely true or am I seeing some facts wrong?
 
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