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Empire - Coggle Diagram
Empire
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empire: a major political unit having a territory of great extent or a number of territories or peoples under a single sovereign authority; especially one having an emperor as chief of state the territory of such a political unit
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because empires were usually extremely large encompassing many territories that spoke different languages emperors would rule indirectly using intermediaries
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Empire comes from the latin imperium: meaning ‘sovereignty’, or ‘rule’
most emperors started as a victorious general, later a supreme magistrate
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Diversity – ethnic, national, cultural, often religious – is their essence
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