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a thing built to last forever and engineered, somehow, to fall spectacularly.
means A large group of nations, peoples, or territories ruled by a single supreme authority, usually an emperor or a dominant state.
from From Latin imperium, meaning 'command, authority, dominion' — the power to give orders and have them obeyed. It came to English through Old French empire in the medieval period. The Latin root is impero, 'I command,' built from in- ('toward') plus parare ('to prepare, make ready'). So at its heart an empire is simply a place where one voice gives the orders — the institutional shadow of a single pointing finger, scaled up to swallow continents.
- shortest empire
- some lasted weeks before collapsing entirely
- sun never set
- Britain's spanned a quarter of all land
- common cause
- overreach kills empires more than enemies do
- name lives on
- Rome fell, yet its echo runs everything
- state building
- New York earned its empire nickname unofficially
british empire — controlled 25% of world's land and 400+ million people at its height in 1920
roman empire — ruled mediterranean and europe for 500+ years, peaked around 117 ce under trajan
mongol empire — largest contiguous land empire, spanned asia from china to eastern europe under genghis khan, 13th century
ottoman empire — controlled southeastern europe, western asia, north africa for 600 years until 1922