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    Incas empire

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    The Inca Empire or Inka Empire[2] (Quechua: Tawantinsuyu[pronunciation?]) was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America.[3] The administrative‚ political and military center of the empire was located in Cusco in modern-day Peru. The Inca civilization arose from the highlands of Peru sometime in the early 13th century‚ and the last Inca stronghold was conquered by the Spanish in 1572. From 1438 to 1533‚ the Incas used a variety of methods‚ from conquest to peaceful assimilation‚ to incorporate

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    1800‚ two powerful empires were in the process of being built. These two empires were the Ottoman Empire and the Spanish Empire. During the building process of their empires‚ the Ottoman and the Spanish both developed many similarities in their political‚ social‚ and economic affairs. A similarity between these empires was that they both had some type of slave system. Even though they did have some things in common there were also many differences that were between these empires. Some differences

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    The Mongol Empire (Mongolian:About this sound listen (help·info) Mongol-yn Ezent Güren; Cyrillic: Монголын эзэнт гүрэн‚ in Russian chronicles also Horde - Russian: Орда) existed during the 13th and 14th centuries‚ and was the largest contiguous land empire in human history.[1] Beginning in the Central Asian steppes‚ it eventually stretched from Central Europe to the Sea of Japan‚ covering Siberia in the north and extending southward into Indochina the Indian subcontinent‚ the Iranian plateau‚ and

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    The Ottoman Empire‚ or Turks‚ were the longest-lasting remnents of the Mongol Empire; the Spanish Empire re-asserted itself after the Muslim Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula and became a world power through the Age of Exploration. From 1450 to 1800‚ both the Ottoman and Spanish Empires experienced political expanision in the process of empire building‚ but unlike the Spanish‚ the Ottomans experienced diminshing growth and stagnation during the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries after amassing

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    The Spanish were the first to settle in central and South America. They established their empire by defeating the Aztecs people. While the Aztecs lived in Mexico‚ they structured a wealthy empire by means of warfare. However‚ the Spanish took their empire by exploiting the resentment‚ the subjects had. Francisco Pizarro arrived with a small force of men in Peru. They conquered the Incas‚ who also had a large empire. Even though they had a large empire‚ it suffered large a chaotic royal succession

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    Throughout several centuries‚ the Spanish conquest of Latin America has been portrayed‚ according to Keen in his textbook‚ A History of Latin America‚ as a "handful of Spaniards" conquering two of the largest empires in Latin America. Now‚ it is true that in comparison to the multiplicity of diverse groups of Native Americans within both the Aztec and Inca empires‚ the number of Spaniards who conquered them were indeed very few in number. However‚ despite the framework of this concept being true

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    Inca Empire

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    Peru is best known as the heart of the Inca empire‚ but it was home to many diverse indigenous cultures long before the Incas arrived. Although there is evidence of human habitation in Peru as long ago as the eighth millennium BC ‚ there is little evidence of organized village life until about 2500 BC. It was at about this time that climatic changes in the coastal regions prompted Peru’s early inhabitants to move toward the more fertile interior river valleys. For the next 1500 years‚ Peruvian civilization

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    was 1600‚ and Spain was unquestionably at the zenith of its power. After a successful Reconquista and explosion of colonization‚ the Spanish Empire had built a powerful military‚ a cohesive empire throughout Europe and the North and South of the Americas‚ and was looking forward to Cultural Revolution and continued growth in overseas trade. This was the Spanish Golden Age‚ when the Iberian Nation was unrivaled as the cultural and economic hegemon of Europe. It seems insanity that in one short

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    Ottoman Empire

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    Emily Haigh 10/23/11 Chapter 21 P2 When comparing the Ottoman Empire with the Mayan Empire there are many differences and similarities. They were different in that the Ottoman Empire actually declined from not being able to expand anymore meanwhile the Mayan Empire kind of just disappeared. They were similar in that they both had things to offer in trade because they grew or inquired new materials. The Ottoman Empire had been built on war and steady territorial expansion. As

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    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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