Throughout history‚ there have been many great empires‚ but they all fell at one point in time. Usually‚ this was because of a series of internal events that weakened an empire to a point where it was vulnerable to a final blow from an external source. The Roman Empire was the largest empire in history‚ which existed for about 1‚200 years‚ with times of war‚ prosperity‚ and innovation. However‚ all great empires eventually came to an end; in 200 CE‚ The Roman Empire started to decline‚ and about three hundred
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the daily paper‚ Jeremiah read an article about how the British Parliament needed to gather revenue. I read the article in my mind‚ yet I could not comprehend why the Parliament would need to do something like this. "Why would they want to gather revenue and how might they even gather it‚" I inquired. “From what I understand the Parliament needs to gather the revenue through directly collecting taxes to raise revenue to bolster the British Army positioned it America” (“Stamp Act”-Britannica). Trusting
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civilization‚ throughout the Macedonian empire‚ ranged as far east as northern India and as far south and west as Egypt. Then Romans were the rulers of the whole area from Constantinopole‚ to Palestine and North Africa to Britain. After centuries‚ the Vikings‚ people from what is now Norway‚ Sweden‚ and Denmark‚ established colonies in northern France‚ Sicily‚ England‚ and Ireland. During the 13th century AD‚ Mongols created a vast empire in Central Asia and the Mongol Empire controlled the expanse of territory
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British Colonial rule destroyed Kenya’s traditional culture. Colonialism occurs when one nation takes control of another. This is exactly what the British did to the Africans. Even though the British created a developed civilization with many aspects they brought to Kenya‚ they affected the Africans politically‚ economically‚ socially‚ and culturally. The British colonization of Kenya destroyed the culture of the native people‚ but it established a democratic government and left Kenya a more modernized
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5:51 PM How did the Delian League become the Athenian Empire? Outline I. Thesis a. The Delian League‚ founded in 478 B.C.‚ started out as an early confederation of Greek city-states‚ with the common goal dealing with the Persian threat that had presented itself earlier. As time passed‚ the dominant member of this confederation became Athens‚ and soon after‚ the Delian League turned into an unofficial Athenian Empire after the Athenians defeated the Persians. II. Body- 1st paragraph a. Background
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The Holy Roman Empire Xiao H. Feng(Amy) Prof. Mary A. O’Donnell November 26‚ 2007 HIS 1000C (3:35-4:30) Page 01 The Holy Roman Empire was an attempt to revive the Western Roman Empire‚ whose legal and political structure had deteriorated during the 5th and 6th centuries and had been replaced by independent kingdoms ruled by Germanic nobles. The Roman imperial office had been vacant after Romulus Augustulus was deposed in ad 476. But‚ during the turbulent early Middle Ages
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Shanti Empire Through out the course of this school year‚ we have learned and examined multiple civilizations. For this project‚ we had to create our own ultimate civilization-gathering achievements from other civilizations and piecing them together to from the perfect Utopia. Like with Mesopotamia‚ Ancient Egypt‚ Ancient China‚ Ancient Greece and just about every early civilization-location played a vital role in the upbringing and culture of the peoples. My civilization resides in where
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entertain by using their harps‚ lutes‚ lyres and other instruments. The farmers are second to last in the rankings mainly because of their financial situation was usually only better than the slaves. Nonetheless‚ their work was as important as any; the empire could not survive on empty stomachs the military would not have been able to dominate without food
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Marcus Aurelius would have had mixed feelings about the collapse of the Roman Empire in the mid-to-late third century AD. An admirer of change‚ Marcus would have accepted the direction that the Empire was heading in‚ but not necessarily through the murderous means in which it transpired. He also was an enormous aficionado of living as close to in accordance with nature as was possible and not enjoying an overly lavish lifestyle. Few of the Emperors during the mid-to-late third century AD were overtly
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dependent on the people they conquered‚ they did not mind who they were or what beliefs they observed. Furthermore‚ their own lack of sophistication caused them to admire
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