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Empire of China [Zhong Guo]



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Imperium Romanum



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The Ottoman Empire [Osmanl? ?mparatorlu?u]




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Are we a modern day Empire Dodong?

di ba?

OMG those empires had fallen already...

meaning we are destined to fall too ha?

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Yea. I would say that we are an empire, 'te.



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"The Sun never sets on the British Empire"

Rule Britania






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Dodong nganong brown man ta dapit sa East?

does that mean nga ang unang states sa America, di ba?

ulahi naman ang grey states nahimong America?

but i dont really know, explain daw dear...

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The British Empire only ruled over what was eastern half of the United States. The 13 colonies and the Indian territories. Britain never intended to expand its American Empire past the Mississippi. Britain realized that its resources were limited and it would have bankrupted the Royal British Treasury to protect all the American colonists from Indian raids, and to assist American colonists etc.

However, the American colonists, despite being chided by the British soldiers and the Governors to remain within the territory of British rule, they did not listen. American colonists were aggressive people, expanding far beyond west and outside British spheres, even provoking the French in 1763 during the French and Indian War.

That is why Britain taxed the American colonists heavily; the taxes were used to pay for the military supplies and military units used to protect the American 13 colonies and keep the peace. Americans rebelled against the British because we were denied our 'Manifest Destiny' to expand west.

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Thank you Dodong, this reminded me again of the battle in Valley Forge...


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The Roman Empire is probably the most pivotal and most influential empire in the history of man kind.
Rome practically civilized Europe and spread forth its civilization to all corners of its empire, hispania, gaul-france, germania, dacia, byzantium, arabia, palestinia, algeria etc. Western Europe's culture derives back to Roman culture (Roman Republicanism, roman jurisprudence, roman dogmatism, roman logics, roman questionability, roman ethics).

Christianity itself spread all over Europe and then to the corners of the world because of Rome.
Under the rule of Emperor Constantine I, the Emperor was about to fight a war with barbarians and saw a cross of Jesus in the sky. He won the battle  and he credited the Roman victory to the cross, or divine intervention. He was the first Emperor of the Roman Empire to be baptized to the Catholic faith and with that he proclaimed Catholicism-Christianity to be the state religion of the Empire. He outlawed pagan worship and his Imperial decree reverberated throughout all the 4 corners of the empire. That is why Europe is Christian (predominantly Roman Catholic). And from Catholicism, sprang forth other christian denominations (baptism, Presbyterianism, calvanism, methodist, lutheran, etc). However none of that would have occurred had it not been for Rome who endorsed Christianity and proclaimed it the state religion of the entire Roman Empire.

Even after the fall of the Roman Empire, Rome's cultural influence was eternalized. The feudal states of Europe and even the empires of Byzantium, Holy Roman Empire, France, Spain, England, Italian Principalities etc all endorsed Catholic-Christianity or Christianity in general.

And when these said nations developed into powerful states during the Age of European Imperialism, it was they that spread Christian faith throughout their overseas empire.

For Example:

1. German Empire spread catholicism and lutheranism in its empire in the Marianas and in Africa

2. The Spanish Empire spread Roman Catholicism in North, Central and Southern America as well as in Guam and the Philippines

3. Portugal spread catholicism in southern India, Sri Lanka and parts of present day Indonesia

4. Great Britain spread forth Calvinism, Presbyterianism, and puritanism in the American colonies and Canada, which then eventually evolved to Baptism, Methodist, Unitarian Universalists, United Churches of Christ etc etc.


Their influence to the world, in terms of religion, jurisprudence, law, ethics, universality all stems back to The Roman Empire.

 

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What is an Empire?

A: An Empire is a state that extends dominion over populations distinct culturally and ethnically from the culture/ethnicity at the center of power. Scholars still debate about what exactly constitutes an empire, and other definitions may emphasize economic or political factors.

Like other states, an empire maintains its political structure at least partly by coercion. Land-based empires (such as the Mongol Empire or the Achaemenid Persia) tend to extend in a contiguous area; sea-borne empires, also known as thalassocracies (the Athenian, Portuguese and the British empires provide examples), may feature looser structures and more scattered territories.

Empires predate the Romans by dozens of centuries: for example, the Akkadian Empire of Sargon of Akkad was the earliest model of a far-flung, land-based empire, founded in the 24th century BC. The New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, at one point in time another major force of the ancient Near East, was established as a loosely defined empire in the 15th century BC under Thutmose III by further invading and then incorporating Nubia and the ancient city-states of the Levant. It is worth mentioning, however, that these early models of imperialism lacked effective and administrative control of their conquered territories.

Empire contrasts with the example of a federation, where a large or small multi-ethnic state - or even an ethnically homogeneous one — relies on mutual agreement amongst its component political units which retain a high degree of autonomy. Additionally, one can compare physical empires with potentially more abstract or less formally structured hegemonies in which the sphere of influence of a single political unit (such as a city-state) dominates a culturally unified area politically or militarily. A second side of this same coin shows in potentially inherent tactics of divide and conquer by different factions ("the enemy of my enemy is my friend") and central intervention for the greater whole's benefit.

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The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation

otherwise known in Latin as: Sacrum Romanum Imperium Nationis Germaniae
or in German as: Heiliges Römisches Reich deutscher Nation


The Holy Roman Empire (1st Reich) colored in dark green.

The Holy Roman Empire was a union of territories in Central Europe during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period under the authority of the Holy Roman Emperor. Although the first Holy Roman Emperor was considered to be Charlemagne, crowned on 25 December 800, the continuous line of emperors began only with Otto the Great in 962. The last was Francis II, who abdicated and dissolved the Empire in 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars. It was officially known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation from the late 15th century onwards.

The Empire's territorial extent varied over its history, but at its peak it encompassed the territories of present-day Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Belgium, and the Netherlands as well as large parts of modern Poland, France and Italy. For much of its history the Empire consisted of hundreds of smaller kingdoms, principalities, duchies, counties, Free Imperial Cities, and other domains. Despite its name, the Holy Roman Empire never included Rome within its borders.

What makes the Holy Roman Empire rather unique is that the empire was never 'Roman', the language used in the empire was not Latin, but a shared form of Gaulic-Visigoth (an early form of French and German). And the Holy Roman Empire never ruled over the city of Rome. What is intriguing is that the Germanic people that ruled the Holy Roman Empire were the decendents of the early Visigoths and Ostrogoths that invaded the old Roman Empire in the 4th century AD and led to the capitulation of the Roman Empire. 5 centuries later, the same barbarian Visigoths and Ostrogoths took up the identity of the conquored Western Roman Empire.

This is a form of cultural dominance. Where the Barbarian takes up the superior culture of the conquored Romans and claims it as theirs; thereby it manifests the barbarian's 'civility' by merging its identity with the Roman Culture. Thereby pronouncing the Roman Empire's continual existence within the minds of its former subjects; surviving not as a political power, but by purely a theologic, teleologic and cultural construct. Which transcends the physical, to the metaphysical.

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