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Empires

Empires. Political landscape for more than two millennia Ancient Rome China Continued across Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Africa, Empires Created. Vast states of territories and peoples united by force and ambition. Empires Created

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Empires

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  1. Empires

  2. Political landscape for more than two millennia • Ancient Rome • China • Continued across Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Africa, • Empires Created

  3. Vast states of territories and peoples united by force and ambition

  4. Empires Created • Empires' conquests, rivalries, and strategies of domination • Empires accommodated, created, and manipulated differences among populations .

  5. Empires sustained state power for centuries. • Militant

  6. Combined religious protection with the politics • Lloyalty Monotheism of Byzantium, • Islamic Caliphates, • Carolingians, • Mongols • Ottomans

  7. Influence of empire • Capitalism • Popular sovereignty, • Limitations and instability of Europe's colonial projects, • Russia's exploitation and differentiation • 'Empire of liberty' - devised by American revolutionaries • Across a continent and beyond.

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