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Legacy of Empires: Political Forces Across Continents

Explore the enduring impact of empires like Ancient Rome and China on the global landscape. Discover how empires shaped vast territories, united diverse populations through force and ambition, and sustained power for centuries. From strategic conquests to religious influence, learn about the complexities of empire-building and its effects on capitalism, popular sovereignty, and colonial projects. Uncover the dynamics of loyalty, rivalry, and state manipulation that characterize the history of empires.

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Legacy of Empires: Political Forces Across Continents

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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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