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Define empire |
An extensive group of nation states or territories under a single super Authority |
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Examples of ancient |
Empire: Incan (1200-1600) Where: Peru/Andes Mts. (South America) Thought: largest pre-columbian Empire in the Americas |
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Historical Empire |
Empire: British (1600-1900) Where: England, Canada, India, south Africa, Hong Kong Thought: "The sun never sets on the..." |
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Current empire |
Empire: American Where: westward expansion, alaska, hawaii, pert rico, Guam Economically: 3% pop. 25% of world economy (starbucks, apple) Military: taiwans, s. Korea, NATO... Culturally: cars, jeans...movies, music... |
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Reasons for empires |
1. Economic growth (u.s) (ussr) 2. Amount of territory gained (British) 3. Military build-up (third Reich) |
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500 BCE |
*Empires N. and S. America, africa, Europe, and asia *Persian Empire dominant (Iran) |
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323 |
Alexander the Great (Greece to Afghanistan) |
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200 |
*Roman Republic *Alexander's Empire brokeup |
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600 |
*Fall of Western Roman Empire *Banty Culture spreads in Africa *Origins of Arabic culture |
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800 |
*Islam spreads across North Africa and Middle east *Charlemagne rules first major post-roman European empire |
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1000 |
*Europe's modern nations begin to take shape |
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1233 |
*Mongol empire dominates Asia *Incan empire emerges |
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1300 |
*Mongol empire breaks up (mongols in China become Chinese) |
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1400 |
*Ming dynasty returns control of China to Chinese *Origins of Ottoman empire (Turkey) |
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1519 |
*Spanish empire reaches new world *Incan empire at farthest extent *Portuguese begin African slave trade |
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1600 |
*Spanish conquest of new world -1,000 year Mayan empire ends *Ottoman empire reaches greatest extent |
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1700 |
*European empires expanding into Americas, Africa and Asia *Russian empire expands to present boundaries |
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1800 |
*United states expand westward with Louisiana purchase -American empire begins |
