An empire is a group of countries controlled by one ruler or one government. Throughout history, empires transform its surrounding nations — changing the economics, politics, and societies during their rise and more notably their fall. Empires such as the Roman and British Empires faced a variety of problems that led to their decline. The fall of these empires influenced changes in nearby societies and regions. The Roman Empire fell apart due to poor decisions in military, political, and economic policies. At the empire’s height it stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, the empire had to stretch its military thin to provide troops on every front. However Document 1’s map depicts the failure to protect its frontiers which allowed
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At its height, the British Empire was known as “the empire on which the sun never sets” due to the mass amount of territories it owned—therefore, at least one part of the empire was in daylight. However, as depicted in the map of Document 7, this global empire was difficult to govern due to its massive scale—causing a political disconnect between Britain and its colonies. In 1858, the British Empire took direct control over the Indian subcontinent after the previous ruler, the British East India Company, caused the Sepoy Mutiny and subsequently India’s widespread hatred of British rule. Document 8 describes Great Britain’s loss of India, its primary market and source of resources, as a colony due to the large debt Britain owed to India and the increasing number of nationalist riots and resulting casualties. The main cause for the creation of the British Empire was a lack of natural resources for industrialization and factories. As seen in Document 9, after the loss of Great Britain’s empire, it also lost the industrial advantage of having a large surplus of resources and its major source of wealth—manufactured exports. Also, the British Empire’s reign crippled its imperialized nations by depleting the land of their natural resources and ruining their original economy by flooding it with British
At its height, the British Empire was known as “the empire on which the sun never sets” due to the mass amount of territories it owned—therefore, at least one part of the empire was in daylight. However, as depicted in the map of Document 7, this global empire was difficult to govern due to its massive scale—causing a political disconnect between Britain and its colonies. In 1858, the British Empire took direct control over the Indian subcontinent after the previous ruler, the British East India Company, caused the Sepoy Mutiny and subsequently India’s widespread hatred of British rule. Document 8 describes Great Britain’s loss of India, its primary market and source of resources, as a colony due to the large debt Britain owed to India and the increasing number of nationalist riots and resulting casualties. The main cause for the creation of the British Empire was a lack of natural resources for industrialization and factories. As seen in Document 9, after the loss of Great Britain’s empire, it also lost the industrial advantage of having a large surplus of resources and its major source of wealth—manufactured exports. Also, the British Empire’s reign crippled its imperialized nations by depleting the land of their natural resources and ruining their original economy by flooding it with British