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Of course this is incorrect, go look up an empire and see.
... Roman empire got over 1000 years, Ottoman's got 623 years, Mongol empire only got 162.
...and Italy, Turkey, and Mongolia are still around, they're just not empires anymore. They're Nations.
You do know what average means in this context, right? You divide the sum of the empires’ years by the number of empires.
But if the average hides a huge range of datapoints, it becomes less useful.