22 Facts About Empire

Empire is often used as a term to describe displeasure to overpowering situations.

The Akkadian Empire, established by Sargon of Akkad, was an early all-Mesopotamian empire which spread into Anatolia, the Levant and Ancient Iran.

The Zhou Empire dissolved in 770 BC into feudal multi-state system which lasted for five and a half centuries until the universal conquest of Qin in 221 BC.

The Median Empire was the first empire within the territory of Persia.

The successful and extensive Achaemenid Empire, known as the first Persian Empire, covered Mesopotamia, Egypt, parts of Greece, Thrace, the Middle East, much of Central Asia, and North-Western India.

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The Seleucid Empire broke apart and its former eastern part was absorbed by the Parthian Empire.

The Qin Empire is known for the construction of the Great Wall of China and the Terracotta Army, as well as the standardization of currency, weights, measures and writing system.

The Han Empire expanded into Central Asia and established trade through the Silk Road.

The relative weakness of the Jin Empire plunged China into political disunity that would last from AD 304 to AD 589 when the Sui Empire reunited China.

In Western Asia, the term "Persian Empire" came to denote the Iranian imperial states established at different historical periods of pre–Islamic and post–Islamic Persia.

In Southeastern and Eastern Europe, during 917, the Eastern Roman Empire, sometimes called the Byzantine Empire, was forced to recognize the Imperial title of Bulgarian ruler Simeon the Great, who were then called Tsar, the first ruler to hold that precise imperial title.

The Holy Roman Empire was not always centrally-governed, as it had neither core nor peripheral territories, and was not governed by a central, politico-military elite.

The Ottoman Empire centered on modern day Turkey, dominated the eastern Mediterranean, overthrew the Byzantine Empire to claim Constantinople and it would start battering at Austria and Malta, which were countries that were key to central and to south-west Europe respectively — mainly for their geographical location.

Mysore Empire was established by Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan, allies of Napoleone Bonaparte.

In Oceania, the Tonga Empire was a lonely empire that existed from the Late Middle Ages to the Modern period.

Britain turned towards Asia, the Pacific, and later Africa, with subsequent exploration and conquests leading to the rise of the Second British Empire, which was followed by the Industrial Revolution and Britain's Imperial Century.

The multiethnic and multicultural nature of the Great Qing Empire was crucial to the subsequent birth of the nationalistic concept of zhonghua minzu.

Term "American Empire" refers to the United States' cultural ideologies and foreign policy strategies.

The British Empire evolved into a loose, multinational Commonwealth of Nations, while the French colonial empire metamorphosed to a Francophone commonwealth.

Empire has been the historically predominant form of order in world politics.

The circumscribed Chinese Empire recovered from all falls, while the fall of Rome, by contrast, was fatal.

The Roman Empire stretched further afield, but there was another great empire in Persia and a larger one in China.