Japanese: 1,700 years Romans/Byzantines: 1,500 years Venetians: 1,000 years Byzantines: 874 years HRE: 800 years Ethiopian: 730 years Carthaginian: 668 years Khmer: 630 years Ottomans: 620 years Lithuanian: 559 years Brunei: 520 years Roman: 500 years Spanish: 497 years Parthians: 471 years Mali: 435 years Han: 422 years Hittites: 422 years Danish: 417 years Dutch: 380 years Mughals: 331 years Neo-Assyrian: 302 years First Babylonian: 299 years Swedish: 286 years First French: 280 years Ming: 276 years Ptolemaic: 275 years Qing: 268 years Golden Horde: 262 years British: 250 years Seleucid: 249 years Safavid: 235 years Achaemenid: 220 years Russian: 204 years Akkadian: 180 years Seljuk: 157 years Maratha: 144 years Timurid: 137 years Huns: 99 years Inca: 95 years Aztec: 93 years Mongols: 88 years Angevin: 88 years Congratulations Amerikkka on your historical L, at a measly 75 years, you were truly one of the worst to ever do it. But hey, at least you beat the Armenians and Brazilians - and you take home the consolation prize of causing more death and destruction than most of the other competitors combined!