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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Reading Guide #2 Question 1: Prior to the founding of the Roman Empire‚ Rome was a republic. Roman citizens elected officials in order to represent the common interest of the people. It had a powerful legislative body called the Senate‚ and “it advised on policy within the republic and members held virtually all executive offices in the Roman state”. (Stearns‚ Adas‚ Schwartz‚ and Gilbert 90) However‚ the highest elected position in the empire was the consul. Only two consuls were elected by an assembly
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The Byzantine Empire‚ in western Asia and southeastern Europe‚ expanded into eastern Europe. The Byzantine Empire‚ with territory in the Balkans‚ the Middle East‚ and the eastern Mediterranean‚ maintained very high levels of political‚ economic‚ and cultural life between 500 and 1450 C.E. The empire continued many Roman patterns and spread its Orthodox Christian civilization through most of eastern Europe‚ Belarus‚ Ukraine‚ and Russia. Catholic Christianity‚ without an imperial center‚ spread in
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I chose the Byzantine Empire because of their overwhelming culture and wars with Muslims over the years. They were originally part of the Roman Empire until it was divided. Much of their people were Christians‚ who were also Greek-speaking. The Byzantine Empire existed for more than a thousand years. The empire declined in the fifteenth century‚ with the Ottomans conquering much of their land. The display below is in a scene within a casual living room of a family that may have lived in this
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The Roman Empire was the period of the ancient Roman society. Their form of government was Roman Republic. The Roman civilization was located around the Mediterranean in Europe‚ Africa‚ and Asia. The first emperor of Rome was Augustus. He established a strong military. There were two different societies in the Roman Empire‚ the East and the West. The Eastern people spoke Latin‚ and the Western people spoke Greek. Domitian was the third and last emperor of the Flavian dynasty. He was born on
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Benefits of an empire. An unified empire provide stability to the people. This could be traced back to 221 BC where China was unified into empire called the Qin dynasty. The main reason is that chances of potential wars to be fought will be lesser and not that it implies there is no war whatsoever. Qin Shi Huang helped to remove this potential wars by unifying many states into one‚ by having an established centralized empire. Therefore‚ eliminate these states attacking one another. The second
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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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capital of the greatest Empire in all of the land‚ at the time. At the height of the Empire they might have had a population of a few million‚ and was worth over billions of dollars.Although great‚ the Empire fell for the most simple things. The Empire let the small things go and the small things built up over time to cause a huge problem in the end which brought the end to the Empire. This great Empire was huge‚ fasting over the entire‚ now‚ Europe continent. The Empire was controlled or ruled by
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The Mongol Empire quickly covered the largest territory the world had ever seen. The Mongols’ main strategy in acquiring land was conquering by force‚ but they also relied on more peaceful methods and their tightly-knit political and social organization. The Mongols attacked villages until complete destruction using their land-based military techniques (docs 1‚2‚3‚7 and 8). Sometimes‚ they gave civilizations a chance to submit to terms and avoid destructions (docs 6 and 9). He Mongols’ divisions
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Unlike the Han and Roman empires‚ the Mayans cannot be considered an empire because they lacked a centralized‚ state-level government‚ had relatively low peace and prosperity‚ and declined more from environmental issues than internal issues. One of the necessary preconditions for the rise of an empire is a state-level government; however‚ the Mayans did not fulfill this requirement and had numerous city-states. The Mayans’ political system was divided into rural communities and urban centers with
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