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One, empire was the least original thing that the West did after 1500.
Everybody did empire.
So it really doesn't look like empire is a great explanation for the Great Divergence.
I was a young soldier in the last of the small empire wars of Britain.
The empire of Iran, the Medes and the Persians, united under Cyrus, became the first great world empire.
This empire is, in fact, the Middle East as we now know it, and it's what shapes the Middle East as we now know it.
It was the largest empire the world had known until then.
And the result of that was an empire that included the areas you see on the screen, and which survived for 200 years of stability until it was shattered by Alexander.
If our institutions are all failing and beyond hope for reform, a natural response is to seek to smash the machine, drain the swamp, burn the empire to the ground, on the hope that whatever rises out of the ashes is bound to be better than what we have now.
Instead, he went on to build a glittering empire of department stores.
The empire is gone, so what are we doing with that design that produces these identical people, and what are we going to do next if we ever are going to do anything else with it?
Where I come from, we call it Delhi belly, as a legacy of empire.
And in fact, in a way, it almost took down your empire at one point.
And I realized that the whole empire was likely to come crashing down unless I chipped in a chip.
We can reconstruct also the journey of the Venetian maritime empire, how it progressively controlled the Adriatic Sea, how it became the most powerful medieval empire of its time, controlling most of the sea routes from the east to the south.
Adam Smith: Let us suppose that the great empire of China was suddenly swallowed up by an earthquake, and let us consider how a man of humanity in Europe would react on receiving intelligence of this dreadful calamity.
Our project was a shock for many Russians, who used to think that our country has always been an autocratic empire and the ideas of freedom and democracy could never have prevailed, just because democracy was not our destiny.
His legacy was an empire that would go on to wage endless conquest until it collapsed, and a tradition of military autocracy.
And further, I should invite him to meet my oldest trustee, who had majored in French history at Yale some 70-odd years before and, at 89, still ruled the world's largest privately owned textile empire with an iron hand.
After establishing himself as a conqueror, the former student of Aristotle turned his attention to building an empire of knowledge headquartered in his namesake city.
In museums, we pause to muse, to gaze upon our human empire of things in meditation and wonder.
Romans made an empire without end in time and space.
No heroic triumph here, no brave individual standing up against impersonal institutions of a modern world, inspiring others to fight, or resourcefully outwitting and outgunning the massive army of the evil empire.
But, having vanquished Puff the Magic Digit Dragon, all the empire's numbers sprang again from this tiny little number one, and they all lived happily ever after.
Mansa Musa had literally put his empire and himself on the map.
With the empire's borders now extending beyond the Great Wall, the fortifications lost their purpose.
But even after being deposed and exiled, he refused to give up, escaping from his prison and launching a bold attempt at restoring his empire before being defeated for the second and final time.
While Napoléon's empire lasted eight years, its legacy endured far longer.
The empire was deep in decline when he came to power, and threatened from all sides: by the Seljuk Turks in the East, the Normans in the West, and Scythian raiders to the north.
Over the course of Anna’s childhood and adolescence, Alexios fought constant military campaigns to secure the frontiers of his empire, even striking up an uneasy alliance with the Crusaders.
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