The largest land empire in the world belongs to the Mongolian empire. A small nation that was able to pull together under one ruler and stretch its borders from the Pacific Ocean to the western borders of Europe. Such speed and success of their conquests have largely gone unappreciated considering how they conquered more land in twenty five years than the Romans did in four-hundred. The Mongolians can be accredited with founding such countries as Russia and Korea‚ and creating international law.
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The Mongolian Empire quickly conquered monumental sums of land in only a relatively small amount of time. A main problem they needed to overcome though was figuring out a way to govern and maintain the newly acquired land. A man called Genghis Khan united the Mongols‚ and with superior military skills they were able to topple the governments of surrounding nations and captured their lands. The Mongols often fitted the ‘new’ government to their liking‚ installing different systems that were much to
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2/19/13 The Origins of the Persian Empire * Basically the rise of the Persian can be accredited to one man: Cyrus the Great. * He was a very powerful king who had the idea of expanding the Persian kingdom by conquering all the land around him. * He ended up creating one of the biggest empires that lasted over two hundred years. * He’s impact on the Persian Empire allowed other emperors after him such as Darius to continue expanding the empire. * First he took control of Media
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Democracy Is Not Capable of Empire There are reasons why many of history’s greatest empires have tended to be either oligarchic or monarchial in nature. In observing the development of two of the ancient world’s most prominent models of representative government‚ the Athenian democracy and the Roman Republic‚ it can be concluded that when coupled with the political‚ economic‚ and social changes that come with expansion‚ the complications inherent with systems with democratic design prove incapable
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OTTOMAN EMPIRE: Devshirme: Every 2 years or so‚ young Christians were taken and trained and converted to Islam. They would either be janissaries (foot soldiers) but ones with “intellectual promise” went to work in the government. Many became powerful. Some were slaves? Because the enslavement of the Muslims was not allowed. The power was NOT hereditary (like the Chinese). So the sultan surrounded himself with people who did not have families. Millet System: Each religion had their own leader -Kept
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If I could turn back time‚ I would go during the time of the Aztec Empire. The Aztecs first started out in the year 1100‚ and left their homeland of Aztlan in Northern Mexico and begin their journey south. Over the next 225 years‚ the Aztecs moved many times‚ until they settled down at the city of Tenochtitlan.The empire might have continued to grow‚ if the Europeans did not arrive in 1519. At that time‚ the Aztec empire were at their height‚ reaching from the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico‚ from
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Austin E. Industrialization DBQ Identify the issues raised by the growth of Manchester and analyze the various reactions to those issues over the course of the nineteenth century. Thesis: Industrialization rapidly changed the city of Manchester during the nineteenth century. The city experienced both positive and negative effects as a result of being industrialized. The factories caused many health issues for Manchester as a whole such as polluting rivers and filling the air with smog. These
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The Aztec Empire flourished between c. 1345 and 1521 CE and‚ at its greatest extent‚ covered most of northern Mesoamerica. Aztec warriors were able to dominate their neighbouring states and permit rulers such as Motecuhzoma II to impose Aztec ideals and religion across Mexico. Highly accomplished in agriculture and trade‚ the last of the great Mesoamerican civilizations was also noted for its art and architecture which ranks amongst the finest ever produced on the continent. The Aztec state is actually
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Whitney Carr HIS-111-874 April 18‚ 2013 Problems Within the Roman Empire The Roman Empire was‚ without a doubt‚ the most powerful governing body in the Mediterranean that ever was. At the peak of the Roman Empire‚ in the mid part of the first century‚ it covered about half of Europe‚ much of the Middle East‚ and the north coast of Africa. So why did Rome fall? There was not one cause that led to the fall of Rome‚ but many things occurring in succession to each other. It is true when it is said
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something that is bigger than themselves. This consolidating power is known a nationalism‚ and it played a significant role in Europe throughout the 18th‚ 19th and 20th centuries. Nationalism brought together people into nation-states‚ overthrew empires composed of many minority groups and played a large role in the outbreak of wars in the 19th century. This pride in one’s country agglutinated the people of an area into a whole. Out of these newly molded lands came powerful countries who flooded
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