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What are the most powerful Groups of People in History??

What are the most powerful Groups of People in past History??
Hmmm. "Past history" as opposed to what? Future history? ;)

How about the Priest class during most of pharonic Egypt's timeframe? Or the priestly class during the middle ages? Or the patricians during Imperial Rome? Or the great robber barons during the Guilded Age in the US?

I think the powerful groups of people are England in the War of 1812

None of the above. Most of the ones you listed lost so they couldn't have been the most powerful. One of the most powerful was Rome, but eventually they also lost.

i dont understand the question. i REALLY dont understand the "power" of the groups on your list and how they might relate to history and the question (since none of them would seem to even remotely qualify as most powerful)

so i answered the vikings because they were an almost unstoppable force in their heyday.

my real choice would be "religious people".

I like the way you missed the Romans, who ruled most of Europe, North Africa and large portions of the Middle East; The Alexander era greeks who ruled most of the middle east, and portions of Europe and North Africa; The Persians, see above; The Mongols (h3ll0, all of China, Most of Russia, down to Damascus, Mongolia, Korea?)...

Oh, one could go on.

Or indeed the British empire in the 1800s...when over a third of the worlds map was red.

Knights Templar, Masons and the Illuminati.
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Knights Templar, Masons and the Illuminati.
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You were so close, its the Jewish Masonic Illuminati.

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The Irish.

Great Britain\UK...they still haven't lost, and had one of the biggest empires ever, as well as having influenced the formation and government of many, many countries.

The Irish.
Funny

when they say yankees, is that the new york yankees? they are a pretty good team, but i hate them.

If your talking about a Civilization or Empire, I would say the Nazi's... If your talking about a community, Catholic Church all the way

ya! go catholics!

Myrth.

What are the most powerful Groups of People in History??
I believe that's spelled "Which was the most powerful group of people in history?"

And the Vikings didn't have any 'real' power.
Sure, they attacked Britain, and they almost claimed it, but that was kinda at the end of the Viking age, and they lost it anyway. They found America, but didn't stay there. They scared the sh*t out of people, but what use was that? They were later hired as bodyguards for kings, but that didn'g grant them any power either.
The french king gave them Normandy, and that was probably the thing that gave them the most might, but still.

Don't get me wrong, I respect vikings (hell, I've even got some viking blood myself), but they never became as powerful as they could've.

me

My great great-grandpa's direct family. They were pretty tight. 13 of them living in a shack in Corning, Arkansas.

I believe that's spelled "Which was the most powerful group of people in history?"

And the Vikings didn't have any 'real' power.
Sure, they attacked Britain, and they almost claimed it, but that was kinda at the end of the Viking age, and they lost it anyway. They found America, but didn't stay there. They scared the sh*t out of people, but what use was that? They were later hired as bodyguards for kings, but that didn'g grant them any power either.
The french king gave them Normandy, and that was probably the thing that gave them the most might, but still.

Don't get me wrong, I respect vikings (hell, I've even got some viking blood myself), but they never became as powerful as they could've.
you need to spend more time watching the history channel. the rest of europe was the vikings bitch for a couple hundred years. they marauded with impunity.

they just made the mistake of fading before the renaissance. the middle ages were short on good PR men.

Depending on what is meant by the question - the greater Mongol empire at its peak; early Ming China; the Han Chinese.

To be honest, I would surmise that the most influential group in History have been, and to an extent remain, the Popes and the assorted Vatican staff. I sincerely doubt that secular law is a complete reality in any nominally Catholic nation, whilst the medieval Pope's wielded both the power of an eminent monarch and the spiritual infallibility of God's divinely ordiained representative.

It could simply be Pericles, Solon et al, however, since Democracy is maintained to be a paragon of civilization, and was a concept that originated with such individuals.

Who are the most powerful people in history? Well, from the state of the world, I'd say apparently idiots.

1 Romans
2 The Irish
3 The Catholic church

the romans and the goths (not those goths,you dork,the ones that pwned rome)

Republicans

I hate 'em but they've managed to survive for 140 years from Lincoln (sucked) to Bush (sucked) if a group of politicians this bad have managed to survive they must be pretty powerful.