Empire

Empire

An empire is a "political unit" made up of several territories and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries". The center of the empire (sometimes referred to as the metropole) exercises political control over the peripheries. Within an empire, there is non-equivalence between different populations who have different sets of rights and are governed differently. Narrowly defined, an empire is a sovereign state whose head of state is an emperor; but not all states with aggregate territory under the rule of supreme authorities are called empires or ruled by an emperor; nor have all self-described empires been accepted as such by contemporaries and historians (the Central African Empire, and some Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in early Engl

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enAchaemenid Empire of Persia at its zenith
enAlmohad Empire 1147 – 1269
enBulgarian Empire in 850
enChina's Great Qing Empire in 1820.
enEastern Roman Empire in 555.
enEvolution of the French Empire in the 18th to the 20th century.
enGerman Empire in 1914.
enHan Empire of China in 2 AD.
enIn 1690, the realms of the Mughal Empire spanned from Kabul in the west to Cape Comorin, Tamil Nadu in the south.
enIn 1920, the British Empire was the largest empire in history.
enMaurya Empire of India at its greatest extent under Ashoka the Great
enMongol Empire in the 13th century.
enOttoman Empire at its greatest extent.
enRed shows self-governing North American British colonies and pink shows claimed and largely indirectly controlled territories in 1775.
enRoman Empire under Trajan . This would be the peak of the empire's territorial extent.
enRussian Empire in 1866 became the second largest contiguous empire to have ever existed. The Russian Federation is currently the largest state on the planet.
enSerbian Empire in 1350
enSpanish–Portuguese Empire of the Iberian Union was the first global imperial entity. The map includes all Spanish territories, but only territories Portugal had during the Iberian Union.
enThe Great Liao Empire, the Song Empire and the Western Xia Empire of China in 1111.
enThe expansion of the Rashidun Empire.
enThe territory directly held by the Tang Empire of China and its sphere of influence.
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enAn empire is a "political unit" made up of several territories and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries". The center of the empire (sometimes referred to as the metropole) exercises political control over the peripheries. Within an empire, there is non-equivalence between different populations who have different sets of rights and are governed differently. Narrowly defined, an empire is a sovereign state whose head of state is an emperor; but not all states with aggregate territory under the rule of supreme authorities are called empires or ruled by an emperor; nor have all self-described empires been accepted as such by contemporaries and historians (the Central African Empire, and some Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in early Engl
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enAn empire is a "political unit" made up of several territories and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries". The center of the empire (sometimes referred to as the metropole) exercises political control over the peripheries. Within an empire, there is non-equivalence between different populations who have different sets of rights and are governed differently. Narrowly defined, an empire is a sovereign state whose head of state is an emperor; but not all states with aggregate territory under the rule of supreme authorities are called empires or ruled by an emperor; nor have all self-described empires been accepted as such by contemporaries and historians (the Central African Empire, and some Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in early England being examples). There have been "ancient and modern, centralized and decentralized, ultra-brutal and relatively benign" Empires. An important distinction has been between land empires made up solely of contiguous territories, such as the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Russian Empire; and those created by sea-power, which include territories that are far remote from the 'home' country of the empire, such as the Carthaginian Empire and British Empire. Aside from the more formal usage, the word empire can also refer colloquially to a large-scale business enterprise (e.g. a transnational corporation), a political organization controlled by a single individual (a political boss), or a group (political bosses). The concept of empire is associated with other such concepts as imperialism, colonialism, and globalization, with imperialism referring to the creation and maintenance of unequal relationships between nations and not necessarily the policy of a state headed by an emperor or empress. Empire is often used as a term to describe displeasure to overpowering situations.
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enEarly empires
enEmpires of the Classical period
enEmpires of the Modern period
enEmpires of the Post-classical period
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