Democracy in the Greek world was short lived - Alexander himself was running an empire with no democracy, and his successors set themselves up as kings. No room for democracy there.
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The kind of government that the Portuguese empire had was a democratic one.
The biggest Empire in the world was the British Empire, it was the biggest Empire the world has ever seen by far! It stretched right around the globe and a saying was born "the sun never sets on the British empire" because a part of the empire was always in daylight. Here is a map of the world, bits marked red was under British rule: http://northbritain.files.wordpress.com/2008/10british-empire-1920.jpg AS a matter of fact the mongolian empire was the biggest ever seen It was ruled by chinggis khan. And it was 4 times the roman empire at its peak. However, when chinggis khan died, the empire shrunk a lot. The empire is the size of Europe and china together!
Both invested in developing roads throughout the Inca Empire.
The Roman Empire featured both an Emperor/King and a senate meant to assist the King. The system itself was a democratic-oligarchy; they voted on various things, however, the ultimate rule still fell with the Emperor.
No, the United States are a rebelled colony of the British Empire. If this you believe this to be an opinion rather than fact. Many historians will agree that the United States is not now or has been an empire as the general agreement for the definition for an Empire is that it requires a monarch.