Who Are the Terran Empire's REAL Founders?

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Star Trek's Mirror Universe is home to the Terran Empire, a brutal, fascistic counterpart to the United Federation of Planets. The Empire's iconography features many callbacks to the Roman Empire, but if the Empire has a relatively recent origin, what Earth political unit could have preceded it?

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CHAPTERS -
00:00 Intro
01:18 Background
03:46 American Imperialism
06:43 Post-World War II Order
11:58 Imperial Culture
12:54 America vs. the ECON
13:10 Final Thoughts
14:44 Outro