Empire Niall Ferguson Introduction * To the British‚ as to people in the rest of the world‚ imperialism’s golden age is now considered a stain on human history‚ an era of slavery and racism and the plunder of native lands and peoples. The notion that imperialism is inherently evil‚ and that no empire can be a good empire‚ is an axiom in today’s geopolitics. * Examines the British Empire from an economic perspective‚ controversially concluding that the British Empire was‚ on balance‚ a
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World‚ the Spanish empire had gained almost complete control of Central America and the majority of South America. Furthermore‚ the Spanish controlled large portions of southern Europe‚ including much of Italy‚ Austria‚ and the Netherlands. The success of the Spanish empire began its gradual decline in the seventeenth century. Many factors contributed to the ultimate demise of the Spanish empire‚ but the main cause of the fall of the empire was Spain’s poor economic decisions. The Spanish government
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were the main characteristics of each of the Muslim empires‚ and in what ways did they resemble each other? How were they distinct from their European counterparts? The Ottoman Turks consisted of Turkic-speaking nomadic people who had spread westward from Central Asia in the ninth‚ tenth‚ and eleventh centuries. They were located in the northwestern corner of the peninsula‚ which allowed them to expand westward and eventually take over empires between the Mediterranean and the Black Seas. The
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greatest empires in history fell? At the Roman Empire’s height of power‚ the empire was bigger than modern day India‚ and its influence was felt throughout the world. By 180 CE‚ the empire surrounded the Mediterranean Sea and controlled most of Europe‚ as well as parts of North Africa and the Middle East. However‚ as numerous empires before them‚ the Romans also collapsed and left the world in a problematic state. The greatest evidence of the lasting impacts of the fall of the Roman empire are the
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invention of the alphabet to spread throughout Eurasia. The Phoenician Empire continued to evolve until its eventual incorporation into the Persian and Macedonian Empires‚ around 400 BCE. <br> <br>Phoenicia is an ancient region lying on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. The Empire peaked at around 1000 BCE‚ and developed until around 700 BCE. Phoenicia‚ now known as Lebanon‚ Syria‚ and Israel‚ was naturally isolated from other civilizations by the Lebanon Mountains in the east‚ and the great
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The people known as the Aztecs (who referred to themselves as the Mexica or Tenocha) originated from a place called Aztlan‚ somewhere in North or North west Mexico. Sometime in the 12th century they embarked on a period of wander- ing and in the 13th century settled in the valley of central Mexico. About 1345 they founded the town of Tenochtitlan. The Aztecs of Tenochtitlan ruled by Montezuma II became the greatest power in Mexico. The city of Tenochtitlan formed an alliance with the neighboring
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British Empire Structure introduction British Empire Introduction to British imperialism Timeline explanations from Empire to Commonwealth Questions to class Sources 1. The British Empire The phrase‚ "the Empire on which the sun never sets"‚ has been used with variations to describe certain global empires that were so extensive that there was always at least one part of their territory in daylight. The British Empire was the largest colonial empire in history
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Between 1450 and 1750‚ three great Muslim empires arose—the Ottomans‚ the Safavids‚ and the Mughals. The Ottomans arose after the Seljuk Turkic kingdom of Rum in Eastern Anatolia collapsed‚ which occurred because of a Mongol invasion in 1243. The area fell into a chaotic period after that because the Mongols did not directly rule it. In search of riches‚ Turkic peoples‚ including the Ottomans who dominated the rest‚ flooded into the area. By the 1350s‚ the Ottomans were advancing from their Asia
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Sevet Pamuk proved his passion for digging deeper into history through the use of writing the article “The Ottoman Empire in the ‘Great Depression’ of 1873-1896‚” published in the Journal of Economic History‚ in March of 1984. Pamuk points out that the view of the economy and changes in domestic production levels of the Ottoman Empire during the years 1873-1896 are misrepresented due to the lack of consideration of sufficient evidence of the impact that trade‚ external forces and the internal forces
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Mauryan Empire The Mauryan Empire was a geographically extensive and powerful empire in Ancient India. The Mauryan Dynasty from 321 to 185 BC ruled this powerful empire. It was one of the world’s largest empires in its time. At it’s greatest extent‚ the empire stretched to the north along the natural boundaries of the Himalayas‚ and to the eat stretching into what is now Assam (South of the eastern Himalayas). To the west‚ it most likely reached beyond modern Pakistan‚ and joining into what
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