Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-24037808-20140924094901/@comment-25177957-20141002050003

The Imperium of Man has aspects of many different earth cultures, the Roman Empire, The Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, The Holy Roman Empire, Greek bronze age culture, The Byzantines and more as well. But in my opinion, they most closely resemble the Romans or Third Reich.

Though the Emperor wouldn't truly match with any figure in real world history, and that was the idea behind him. He has small aspects of each legendary character of history, Jesus, Caesar, Hitler. Just to name a few...