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Empire

An empire is a realm controlled by a monarch or other official and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries. The center of the empire (sometimes referred to as the metropole) has political control over the peripheries. Within an empire, different populations may have different sets of rights and may be governed differently. The word…

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Fall of empires

Transition from empire

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related to Decolonization · 51
Empire → After, Antarctic Lands, Brazil, British, Chad, China, Commonwealth, Despite, Emperor, European, Fifteen, Fourteen British Overseas Territories, Francafrique, France, Francophone, French, French Africa, French Guiana, French Polynesia, French Southern
related to Early Modern period · 46
Empire → After, Akbar, Aurangzeb, Babur, Bahmani Sultanate, Bengal, Delhi Sultanate, Emperor, Europe's GDP, European, GDP, Genghis Khan's, Gujarat, He, His, Humayun, Hyder Ali, Hyderabad, In, India
related to Post-classical period · 44
Empire → AD, Africa, And, Arab, Arab Empire, Asia, At, Atlantic, Battle, Caliphate, Central Asia, China, Chinese Empires, Empires, Eurasia, Eurocentric, Europe, Far, Golden Ages, Iberia
related to Early empires · 41
Empire → Africa's, Akkad, All, Amarna, Amarna Period, Anatolia, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Iran, Assyria, Babylon, Battle, BC, Bronze Age, By, Cyprus, Egypt, Elamites, Empires, Fertile Crescent, Hammurabi
related to Roman Empire · 39
Empire → Adrianople, An, Another, Asia, Asking, At, China, Christian, Christianity, Comparative, Crossing, Eurocentric, Eurocentrism, Europe, Five Good Emperors, German, Germanic, Historian André Piganiol, However, Huns
related to Classical period · 33
Empire → Achaemenid Empire, Age, Alexander, Antigonid, BC, Central Asia, China, Diadochi, Earth, Egypt, Empires, First Millennium BC, From, Great, Greece, Han Empires, Hellenistic Empire, His Empire, Indo-Mediterranean, It
related to Circumscription theory · 29
Empire → According, BC, Bronze Age, Carneiro, Cheng, China, Correspondingly, Egypt, Egyptology, Eurocentric, Expert, German Sociologist Friedrich Tenbruck, Hence, Japan, Japanology, Kaufman, Narmer, Richard Little, Robert, Robert Carneiro
related to Russia · 29
Empire → After, Agnia Grigas, By, Crimea, European, For, For Russia, Great, In, In June, Moscow, Mykhailo Podolyak, NATO, Nazification, Niall Ferguson, On, Peter, Putin, Putin's, Russia
related to Colonial empires · 28
Empire → Adam Smith, Africa, Age, Americas, Asia, Beginning, Britain, Colonial, Columbus, Discovery, Dutch, English, Europe, European, For, French, Gama, Oceania, Portuguese, South Asia
related to Timeline of empires · 28
Empire → Achaemenid Persia, BC, Bronze Age Egypt, Byzantine, China, Chola Empire, Delhi Sultans, Dynastic, Eastern, Egypt, Eight Islands, Established, Guptas, India, Japan, Japanese Empire, Many Indian, Marathas, Mauryans, Mughals

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Empireis arealm controlled by a monarch or other official and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries0.90text
Empireis asovereign state that exercises control over multiple distinct territories0.90text
Empireis aaggregate of many territories under a supreme ruler or oligarchy0.90text
Empireis alarge polity which rules over territories outside of its original borders.Definitions of what physically and politically constitutes an empire vary0.90text
Empireis alatter's unprecedented0.90text
George Steinmetzinstance ofMillennia had passed before Europe could claim to dictate the course of world history.According to historians0.80text
involving the cessation of state sovereigntyinstance ofMillennia had passed before Europe could claim to dictate the course of world history.According to historians0.80text
empires should properly be studied in the domain of politics rather than economicsinstance ofMillennia had passed before Europe could claim to dictate the course of world history.According to historians0.80text
the Holy Roman Empire also came together by electing the emperor with votes from member realms through the Imperial electioninstance ofEmpires0.80text
Chadinstance of29 francophone countries0.80text
Rwandainstance of29 francophone countries0.80text
etcinstance of29 francophone countries0.80text

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