>Name one empire that wasn't evil?
No empire is evil. It's a political form. People can be evil; things aren't evil. Others are free to disagree with that, but for me it's axiomatic. As a historian, I can investigate the actions of people, but I cannot assign motive and purpose to a library or to a representative democracy. Or an empire.
Given that axiom, I can point to good things people have done in an empire and bad things people have done in an empire. There's the aqueduct <insert rest of sketch here>.
No empire is evil. It's a political form. People can be evil; things aren't evil. Others are free to disagree with that, but for me it's axiomatic. As a historian, I can investigate the actions of people, but I cannot assign motive and purpose to a library or to a representative democracy. Or an empire.
Given that axiom, I can point to good things people have done in an empire and bad things people have done in an empire. There's the aqueduct <insert rest of sketch here>.