Ancient Empires

What is an Empire

In today’s age, when one thinks of the word empire, they think it’s from ancient times where there were ancient civilizations. Webster dictionaries definition of empire is, “a major political unit having a territory of great extent or a number of territories or peoples under a single sovereign authority; especially: one having an emperor as chief of state.” (Marriam-Webster) An empire is something like a state. It’s state with just one other layer of government with large political units. Usually an empire is made up of states combined, with some states primarily being on their own and others’ relying heavily on the empire. They commonly began as powerful monarchies that have different units of diversity such as different

The middle stage includes trade and affluence and taking over more and more areas with the help of military and strong leader and persuaders. With gaining more land comes building barriers and making defense stronger. For example, this can be seen in the Great Wall of China. Like always great things come to an end and other empires who are bigger or wiser will take them over or the empire will have civil wars. Through this more empires will form and that is how we have had many past empires that have strived greatly then had a huge downfall.

In the third century B.C., the forming of the Rome and Chinese empires form. Both these empires then create a key to how further empires will form and be run throughout history. The key to a great empire is generally a ruler who is brilliant. Some rulers such as Alexander the Great and other predecessors will help create this resilient supremacy. Recent studies have seen that the people who form empires or lately have been scientist, missionaries and

This was stated to be wrong because there were several conflicts with this proposal. The first key insight is that a empire usually continued through the eighteenth century with the development of political change. Empires started with popular sovereignty and natural rights as their political use. In the article, the author says, “In British North America, the French Caribbean, Spanish South America, and elsewhere, struggles for political voice, rights, and citizenship took place within empires before they became revolutions against them. “ (Burbank and Cooper