You are more likely to be raped in London than in any American or European city

Finding similarities between two states doesn't make the later state a successor you retard
This is like saying the early caliphates were a successor to the Macedonian empire because they both involved uniting a population of people with a common tongue/religion and proceeding to topple empire(s) much older and bigger than them while spreading their language/culture before splintering into smaller states. Spain has a better claim to Rome than the ottomans